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EPISODE · Jul 16, 2025 · 14 MIN

Why Congress might claw back money it already approved

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The Senate voted to advance legislation that would claw back over $9 billion dollars for foreign aid and public media that both chambers of Congress, and President Trump himself had previously approved. Reuters’s Bo Erickson explains how it's part of a broader effort by the administration to assert more authority over the federal budget. The executive director of Camp Mystic, the all-girls camp in Texas, received a severe flood warning on his phone in the early-morning hours of July 4. According to an investigation by Annie Gowen and her colleagues at the Washington Post, it took more than an hour after that for a frantic evacuation to begin.For years, women told medical providers that IUD procedures were painful. Vox’s Allie Volpe joins to discuss why their voices are finally being taken seriously.Plus, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pulling some National Guard troops from L.A., unreleased music was stolen from Beyoncé, and a chunk of Mars is going to auction. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.

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