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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President-elect Donald Trump and VP-elect J.D. Vance are blasting a bipartisan measure aimed at preventing a government shutdown after midnight Friday ahead of the holiday. Trump basically telling House Speaker Mike Johnson to renegotiate.
Entrepreneur Elon Musk, co-head of Trump's newly created advisory group on government efficiency, also blasted the measure. saying any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous bill deserves to be voted out in two years.
A measure to keep the government running through March included the first congressional pay raises since 2009, bringing House members' annual salaries to $180,600 a year. The Supreme Court is stepping into the TikTok debate. As NPR's Bobby Allen explains, the high court has agreed to review whether a law that could ban the app next month is constitutional.
The Supreme Court has accepted TikTok's emergency motion to review a law President Biden signed in April. The law bans TikTok nationwide unless it is sold to a non-Chinese company. It is meant to address lawmakers' national security concerns over possible Chinese influence.
Earlier this month, a federal appeals court affirmed the ban law, saying it actually protects free speech by preventing an adversarial government from censoring content. Lawyers for TikTok say singling out an app for shutdown used by roughly half of America is an unprecedented violation of the First Amendment.
The high court will hear arguments on January 10th, nine days before the law is set to take effect. Bobby Allen, NPR News.
The Supreme Court today says it's agreed to consider South Carolina's move to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the latest abortion-related case since overturning it as a nationwide right. The court agreed to consider the legal question of whether Medicaid patients can sue over the right to choose their own qualified provider.
Lower courts blocked that order, but the state has appealed. South Carolina moved in 2018 to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, which uses the money for family planning and not for abortions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by more than 1,000 points today, posting its 10th consecutive session and longest losing streak in half a century.
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