Inside Trump’s Strategy to Push Out Immigrants, and How Tech Giants Targeted Teens at School
6/5/202614 min
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
Here’s what we’re covering:
Republicans Defeat Move to Bar Trump’s Payout Fund, by Annie Karni and Robert Jimison
Trump Squeezes Immigrants by Cutting Them Off From Jobs, Health Care and Housing, by Nicholas Nehamas, Miriam Jordan, Coral Davenport, Hamed Aleaziz, Lydia DePillis and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: How Social Media Apps Hooked Teens at School, by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
Marjane Satrapi, the Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56, by Amelia Nierenberg and Ségolène Le Stradic
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
I gave my brother a New York Times subscription.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries0:03
We exchange articles.
Tracy Mumford· Host0:05
And so having read the same article, we can discuss it.
Speaker 00:07
She sent me a year-long subscription so I have access to all the games.
Speaker 3· Soundbite0:11
The New York Times contributes to our quality time together.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries0:14
It enriches our relationship.
Speaker 00:16
It was such a, a cool and thoughtful gift. We're reading the same stuff, we're making the same food. We're on the same page.
Tracy Mumford· Host0:24
Learn more about giving a New York Times subscription as a gift at nytimes.com/gift. [instrumental music] From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Friday, June 5th. Here's what we're covering.
Speaker 4· Soundbite0:38
We've been sitting here for almost 12 hours listening to nonsense after nonsense. I've had enough.
Tracy Mumford· Host0:50
Very, very early this morning, the Senate finally wrapped up a marathon voting session.
Speaker 4· Soundbite0:57
We're here to complete our oath of office, which is to provide security and safety for the American people.
Tracy Mumford· Host1:05
And ultimately, Republicans prevailed in pushing through $70 billion in funding for President Trump's immigration crackdown. They used a special filibuster-proof process to do it, which kept lawmakers at the Capitol all night, and they effectively muscled it through over the objections of Democrats who'd spent months calling for more restrictions on ICE agents. The bill almost got derailed at one point by a bipartisan