White House Walks Back Federal Funding Memo
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondents Deepa Shivaram and Tamara Keith and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:23.5 | Hello, this is Jason in Seattle, Washington. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm currently prepping for a goodbye party as my spouse and I also pack up our entire lives as we prepare a move to Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 0:36.0 | This podcast was recorded at 12.35 p.m. on Thursday, January 30th, |
| 0:41.3 | 2025. Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but hopefully we will have arrived safely |
| 0:46.4 | in our new apartment with their senior Chihuahua peanut and enjoying a glass of port wine. |
| 0:52.3 | Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. |
| 0:56.9 | Absolutely lovely. |
| 0:58.0 | I want to go to Portugal. |
| 0:59.5 | It is on my list. |
| 1:00.7 | I have friends who live in Portugal, actually, who used to live in the U.S. |
| 1:03.5 | It's really interesting how they were able to do that. |
| 1:05.8 | So I hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:07.4 | That'd be great. |
| 1:08.3 | I don't think I would go with the port wine personally. I don't like it that sweet, but there's other good dry wines there. |
| 1:14.0 | And a pastel denata, too. Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Deepa Shiverum. I cover the White House. I'm Tamara Keith. Trump briefed the nation on the plane crash that happened last |
| 1:28.5 | night in D.C. just before 9 p.m. an American Airlines flight carrying about 60 people from |
| 1:33.7 | Wichita, Kansas crashed into a military helicopter. There are no survivors. It was the first |
| 1:39.3 | airline crash like this to take place since 2009. And there are investigations ongoing on how this happened. |
| 1:45.2 | And the cause is not known. But this afternoon, President Trump weighed in. And he seemed to |
| 1:50.1 | blame the crash on diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring efforts at the FAA. |
| 1:55.5 | We'll have more information when we do actually know what is going on. But this is all |
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