White House Wants to Screen Social-Media History of Many U.S. Visitors
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:22.2 | Here is your morning brief for Thursday, December 11th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:28.4 | The Trump administration is proposing screening five years of social media history for visitors |
| 0:34.7 | coming to the U.S. from 42 countries that are currently covered by a |
| 0:38.5 | visa waiver program. The administration described the change which would affect citizens of the |
| 0:43.4 | UK, France, Italy, and Japan as necessary to comply with an executive order aimed at protecting |
| 0:49.9 | the U.S. from foreign threats. That's according to the proposed rule filed by U.S. Customs and Border |
| 0:55.4 | Protection. A CBP spokesperson emphasized that the social media rule wasn't final. The U.S. Senate |
| 1:02.5 | is scheduled to vote today on competing Democratic and Republican health care measures |
| 1:06.4 | three weeks ahead of the expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies. |
| 1:16.4 | In a break with party leadership, a number of Republicans say the GOP should extend the subsidies. |
| 1:20.8 | The party's proposal instead boosts funding for health savings accounts. |
| 1:28.9 | And shares of Oracle slid more than 10% off hours after its revenue and operating income fell short of analysts' |
| 1:35.3 | expectations yesterday, and as AI spending costs pile up. While the company's deal backlog now exceeds a half a trillion dollars, there's concern in some corners over how heavily Oracle has |
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