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🗓️ 1 April 2025
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0:00.0 | From CNN, I'm AfomaDK, with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, April 1st. |
0:08.0 | President Donald Trump's second term is facing its first major political battle today. |
0:13.1 | Voters in Wisconsin and Florida are casting their ballots in key elections. |
0:17.6 | Two Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates are going head-to-head in a race that will either retain the court's liberal majority or flip the court back to conservatives. |
0:26.4 | In Florida, two vacant U.S. House seats are up for grabs to replace former Republican representatives Matt Gates and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. |
0:35.0 | Vacancies that only tighten the GOP's slim majority. |
0:38.5 | Here's CNN Politics senior reporter Stephen Collinson. |
0:42.2 | Say a Democrat got to within about 10 points in one of these races. |
0:47.2 | If you're a Republican who is sitting on a 10 point margin or less, and there are plenty of |
0:53.1 | them in your constituency, you're |
0:55.8 | really going to start worrying about what's going to happen in the midterm elections next year, |
1:00.4 | the impact of Trump's policies, and that might make you think a little bit differently |
1:05.2 | about how things are going in the United States and the direction the White House is taking. The federal government has suspended several research grants at Princeton University. |
1:15.6 | That's according to a letter from the university president and obtained by CNN. |
1:19.6 | Here's CNN's Gloria Pasmino. |
1:21.6 | The university was notified by multiple agencies, I should say, including the Department of Energy, NASA, and the Department of Defense. |
1:29.9 | So the university president in his letter addressed anti-Semitism and the fact that the university |
1:35.2 | is trying to do something about combating it. But it's not yet clear yet if this is the source of the administration's funding cuts. |
1:43.8 | So that part is still unclear. |
1:45.6 | We've seen the Trump administration target other universities, |
1:48.7 | including UPenn, over some other parts of their agenda |
1:52.2 | that they are not in agreement with. |
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