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Podcast: Apple News Today
Episode: Why Congress might claw back money it already approved
Description: 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...