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This message comes from NPR sponsor Sony Pictures Classics. I'm Still Here from filmmaker Walter Salas is the true story of one family's resilience when a dictatorship attempts to tear them apart. Led by a Golden Globe winning performance by Fernanda Torres, now playing Select Cities.
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The Office of Management and Budget is rescinding its controversial order calling for a pause on federal assistance programs. More from NPR's Maura Liason.
The order had caused confusion in Washington and chaos around the country as federal agencies struggled to understand exactly what the White House wanted them to do and which programs were and were not covered by the memo. Now the Trump administration has abandoned the blanket temporary federal funding freeze.
Democracy Forward says the administration has told the heads of all executive departments to contact their general counsels if they have questions about how to implement President Trump's other executive orders cutting specific funding for many programs. The conflict demonstrates the tensions inherent in Trump's larger effort.
to expand the powers of the presidency and diminish constitutional checks and balances, including Congress's ability to control how the federal government raises and spends money. Mara Liason, NPR News, the White House.
President Trump has signed the Lack and Riley Act, a measure that may expand who can be deported. As NPR's Amanda Bastio explains, the law comes as Trump is promising stricter immigration enforcement.
The first law of Trump's new term in office directs federal immigration enforcement to detain and deport those without legal status charged with certain crimes, including minor theft or shoplifting, assault of a law enforcement officer, or crimes resulting in death or serious bodily injury of another person.
It's a landmark law that we're doing today. It's going to save countless innocent American lives.
The measure has been criticized by immigration advocates who say it limits due process, and they say research shows immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born citizens. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News.
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