2025-02-26
13 分钟Good morning.
It's Wednesday, February 26th.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, how inflation became Trump's problem,
where trans kids are left after an executive order banning gender affirming care.
And the White House takes control of the press pool.
But first to Washington, where House Republicans narrowly passed a budget framework bill last night.
After initially pulling the measure and seeming to not have the votes,
Speaker Mike Johnson minutes later brought it back to the floor.
As members of Congress rushed in some cases running back to vote, it passed in a 217 to 215 vote.
The budget resolution
in the House is one step of a complicated process that would enable Congress to pass much of Trump's legislative goals.
But as they move ahead, Republicans will need to find consensus as much as possible.
Given their slim three vote majority in the House and some GOP lawmakers want.
Completely different things, it's kind of impossible to find a middle ground.
Jacob Bogage is the congressional economic correspondent for the Washington Post.
You've got folks who want these really, really steep budget cuts.
They want to go after different kinds of social safety net programs.
Then you have moderates who are saying, over my dead body, you can't do that.