Hi, this is Alex from Central Nebraska, and I just finished loading the dishwasher, which I never do, because my wife doesn't like the way that I do it.

I also just finished listening to the NPR Politics podcast, where Danielle Kurtz Laban's cant let it go was about a couple disagreeing about loading the dishwasher.

It was epic. Now you get to listen to a new episode of the podcast, which was recorded at...

244 pm on Thursday, April 5th.

It's face it. Things have probably changed by the time you hear this. So keep up with all of NPR's political coverage on the NPR1 app, NPR.org and your local station.

Now let's get on with the show.

Danielle was literally dancing. A joy dance.

Yes, that's true. I like this guy. He's been western to boot.

This is the NPR Politics podcast, and we're here with our weekly roundup of political news.

Trump is deploying national guard troops to the US-Mexico border.

It's not technically a trade war yet, more like a trade skirmish, but China is hitting back at the US with tariffs of its own, targeted at Trump country.

And with CEO Mark Zuckerberg preparing to testify before Congress next week, Facebook is now saying that some 87 million people had their data harvested and shared with the political consulting firm Cambridge, Adelidica.

That's a lot, and it's also a lot more than Facebook originally said.

I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House for NPR.

I'm Scott Horsley. And I also cover the White House.

I'm Danielle Kurtzlaven, political reporter.

And I'm Mara Lias and national political correspondent.

I just want you guys to know that this week for the first time ever, I loaded my dishwasher handles down.

And how was it?

Forks are so much cleaner.

My life has changed. You know, black is wide up his doubt. It's food tastes better.

Yeah, absolutely.

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