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What are the latest developments in U.S. government funding?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Senate Democrats say they are opposed to a bill passed by the House to fund federal agencies through September. Congress has until late tomorrow night to approve a spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown. NPR's Deirdre Walsh has more.
After the House approved the six-month spending bill largely along party lines... Republican leaders called on Senate Democrats to back it or be blamed for a shutdown. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says GOP leaders don't have the 60 votes needed to get around a filibuster. He says Congress should instead pass a one-month stopgap measure.
Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort. But Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input, any input, from congressional Democrats.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune argued if Democrats block the spending bill, they will own a shutdown. Deirdre Walsh, NPR News, the Capitol.
The Trump administration is working to get rid of significant environmental rules in the U.S. The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, said this was the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history. NPR's Jeff Brady reports the decisions could increase the use of fossil fuels.
Zeldin said the agency will reconsider rules that limit climate pollution from power plants and from cars and trucks, also regulations that limit soot and mercury in the air. Other rules that Zelden claims are hurting the economy and costing trillions of dollars. But that leaves out the fact that pollution also costs the country, you know, and health costs and cleanup.
It's not clear whether EPA plans to get rid of these rules or weaken them. Those details should come later.
NPR's Jeff Brady reporting. The Kremlin says it's in the final stages of ejecting Ukrainian troops from a sliver of land in western Russia. Last summer, Ukrainian troops seized the region during a surprise advance. NPR's Joanna Kakissas reports from Kiev, Russia's military action comes as the U.S. and Ukraine await the Kremlin's formal response to a 30-day ceasefire proposal.
Ukraine captured a chunk of the western Russian province of Kursk last summer in a surprise incursion that embarrassed the Kremlin. Since then, Russian troops assisted by North Korean soldiers have retaken most of that land. Russia's defense ministry is claiming its soldiers have recaptured the city of Suja, an administrative center there. Following the U.S.
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