Trump-Xi Meeting, Head Start Funding, Surgeon General Nominee

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

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President Trump met with China’s President Xi Jinping in South Korea, where the two leaders agree to ease trade tensions after months of tariff wars and threats. More than 65,000 children could lose access to Head Start as the government shutdown threatens to cut off funding for childcare and early learning programs. And a Senate confirmation hearing for Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Casey Means, was delayed after she went into labor.

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0:00.0	Hey, hello.
0:01.7	Why do you sound so depressed?
0:03.9	Um, I'm debuting a new personality now.
0:08.3	Okay.
0:09.2	No more self-deprecating A.
0:11.8	Okay.
0:13.2	So what does that mean?
0:15.0	That means I'm not going to make fun of myself anymore.
0:17.5	So that's, so you're just not going to talk?
0:19.7	I know, it's hard because that's all I got to talk
0:21.5	about.
0:24.9	President Trump says trade talks went well with Chinese President Xi in South Korea.
0:29.5	I thought it was an amazing meeting. He's a great leader. Some tariffs are going away, but is there
0:36.1	an agreement on a formal trade deal?
0:38.3	I'm Leila Faudil.
0:39.4	That's A. Martinez, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:45.0	Tens of thousands of toddlers and preschoolers could lose access to their head-start classrooms.
0:50.7	They are scrambling and trying to figure out how long they can keep the doors open.
0:54.5	Funding runs out this weekend for the federal program providing child care and early learning for low-income families.
1:00.1	And a Senate confirmation hearing for President Trump's nominee for Surgeon General was delayed after she went into labor.
1:06.8	What we are dealing with here is so much more than a physical health crisis.
1:11.7	This is a spiritual crisis.
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