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🗓️ 20 March 2025
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President Donald Trump is set to sign an order aimed at delivering on a key campaign promise - elimination of the Education Department.
USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Aysha Bagchi explains how Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' rebuke this week marks a growing Trump showdown with the judiciary.
The Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged.
USA TODAY Youth Mental Health Reporting Fellow Rachel Hale talks about sextortion and the prevalence of individuals or companies that charge a fee to retrieve explicit photos, and then may fail to do so.
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0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Thursday, March 20th, 2025. This is the excerpt. |
0:14.6 | Today, Trump is set to sign an order aimed at eliminating the Education Department. Plus, |
0:19.3 | what the Supreme Court Chief Justice's |
0:20.8 | rebuke of Trump this week tells us about a showdown in the courts, and as sex torsion |
0:25.6 | grows in the U.S., so does the prevalence of individuals or companies that charge to retrieve |
0:30.9 | explicit photos and then may fail to do so. President Donald Trump today is set to sign a long-anticipated executive order that seeks |
0:40.0 | to eliminate the Department of Education. Trump is expected to sign the order which has been in the |
0:44.6 | works for weeks at a White House ceremony attended by several Republican governors and state education |
0:50.1 | commissioners. In doing so, he will deliver on a signature campaign promise to dismantle the agency. |
0:56.1 | The order, which is almost certain to invite legal challenges from the left, |
0:59.9 | sets up a new test for the bounds of presidential authority. After the Trump administration's |
1:04.2 | efforts to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development were blocked this week by a |
1:09.4 | federal district judge in Maryland. |
1:15.2 | Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rebuke this week marks a growing Trump showdown with the courts. |
1:21.7 | I spoke with USA Today Justice Department correspondent Aisha Boggi for more. |
1:26.3 | Asia, it's a treat having you back on. How are you? |
1:28.5 | Thanks, Taylor. I'm doing well. It's good to be here. |
1:30.9 | Thanks for making the time. So let's just start here. I mean, what happened with this rebuke from |
1:34.3 | Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts? |
1:36.9 | John Roberts issued a public statement Tuesday. It was within hours of President Donald |
1:42.3 | Trump posting on truth social Social calling for the impeachment |
1:45.7 | of a judge who's ruled against him when it comes to some of the tactics he's used to execute |
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