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11.4.25 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of the Washington Post for Tuesday,
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November fourth, twenty twenty five. As a reminder, RADIOI is
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a reading service intended for people who are blind or
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have other disabilities that make it difficult to read printed material.
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Your reader for to day is Cindy Fraser. To day's
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front page headlines from the Washington Post are election may
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help put end to impass. Senators hope. A strong statement
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by voters encourages compromise. Next, for those who lost everything?
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A Fellowship of Catastrophe, a conference brings wild fire survivors
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together to find community and share tips. Our next headline,
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snap funding will be released. Move follows two court orders.
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Money will cover half of month's food assistance. Next, Watching
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for signals in New Jersey's Latino vote. Next, many ball
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room donors have business before administration. And the final headline
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from today's front page, A costly, confusing hunt for a
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non existent cure. Family navigates false hope for autism treatments. Now,
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let's turn to our first item, entitled election may help
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put end to m pass Senators hope. A strong statement
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by voters encourages compromise. By Theodoric Meyer, Some Democratic and
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Republican senators are newly optimistic that the government shut down,
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which is dragged on for more than a month, might
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soon come to an end. They believe Tuesday's elections, among
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other factors, will encourage senators in both parties to find
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a way to reopen the government. The elections kind of
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the first report card on Trump. Senator Mark R. Warner,
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Democrat from Virginia, said, I hope it will frankly empower
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some of my Republican friends to move from talking about
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things to actually finding their way to get to some compromise.
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Democratic victories in the New Jersey and Virginia governor's races
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could make Republicans question their shutdown strategy, putting fresh pressure
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on GOP lawmakers to negotiate and end of the shutdown,
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Warner said. Republicans meanwhile, argue that Democrats will be more
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willing to compromise once the election is over, because Democrats
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are worried they would disappoint their voters if they struck
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a deal to end the shutdown before election day. Once
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the election results are in, maybe that'll free some people
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up to be able to vote yes on Republican's bill
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to reopen the government. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Republican
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from South Dakota, told reporters last week the election is
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one of several factors creating hope that an end of
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the shutdown might be within reach. Discussions continue between Democratic
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and Republican Rank and Fassenate, and Soon said Monday that
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he believed these talks may finally yield a solution to
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the shutdown. After picking up momentum last week, Senator Dick Durbin,
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Democrat from Illinois, echoed Soon's optimism. After you've been around
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forever as I have been, you can kind of sense
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the ebb and flow of this place. Durban, the number
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two Senate Democrat, told reporters Monday, and I sense that
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people are tired of this shutdown. The exact outlines of
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a potential deal remain hazy, and the tentative talks about
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ending the shutdown could still collapse. For now, the impasse remains.
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The Senate has rejected a Republican bill that would reopen
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the government thirteen times. Three members of the Democratic Caucus
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Senators Catherine Cortez Masto, Democrat from Nevada, Angus King, Independent
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from Maine, and John Fetterman, Democrat, from Pennsylvania have repeatedly
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voted for the Republicans bill, while one Republican Senator, Ran
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Paul from Kentucky opposes it. With a fifty three to
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forty seven majority in the Senate, Republicans need five more
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Democratic votes to secure the sixty votes the bill needs
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to pass. The government's shutdown is set to become the
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longest on record Tuesday night. Democrats say they will not
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vote to reopen the government until Republicans agree to extend
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expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies will Republicans say they will
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not negotiate until Democrats vote for their bill to reopen
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the government. As a shutdown approaches its fifth week, Republicans
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and Democrats have come under increasing pressure to end the shutdown.
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The Trump administration said Monday it would restore supplemental Nutrition
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Assistance Program benefits after two courts ordered the Department of
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Agriculture to tap contingency funding, but the food assistants funding
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will only be paid for half of November, putting pressure
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on lawmakers to reopen the government soon. Tuesday's elections present
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another possible inflection point. Voters will elect new governors in
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New Jersey and Virginia. Vote on a ballot measure in
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California that would redraw the state's congressional districts to favor
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Democrats ahead of next year's midterm elections, elect a new
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mayor in New York City, and vote on whether to
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retain three Democratic justices on Pennsylvania's Supreme Court. Lawmakers hoped
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that previous inflection points would change the dynamics of the shutdown,
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forcing the parties to the negotiating table. Some Republicans predicted
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Democrats would fold after the October eighteenth No King's rallies.
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Democrats suggested Republicans would feel increasing pressure as the November
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first start of open enrollment, when millions of Americans were
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expected to see much higher insurance premiums for next year,
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drew nearer. Neither of these events have forced either side
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to compromise. However, now some Democrats say their party should
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be cautious about viewing the election results as a validation
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of their shutdown strategy, particularly when so much else is
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on voter's minds. A Washington Post Scar School poll last
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month found that eighteen percent of registered voters identified the economy,
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the cost of living, jobs, and housing as a top issue.
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Influencing their choice for governor. One percent said it was
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a government's shutdown or treatment of federal workers. I'm not
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sure I would read these results as a clear indicator
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on the Democratic plan to demand Republicans extend ACA's subsidies
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before reopening the government, Senator Chris van Holland, Democrat from
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Maryland said. Senator Andy Kim, Democrat from New Jersey, said
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he viewed the election as a referendum on the Trump administration,
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but not necessarily on democrats shutdown strategy. Republicans are going
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to see results from Virginia and New Jersey as a
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strong dissent against their actions that they've been taking during
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the Trump administration. People in New Jersey are furious about
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the Gateway Tunnel being held up as just kind of
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a chip of political revenge by Donald Trump, Kim said,
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referring to a Hudson River rail tunnel project for which
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the administration froze funding on the first day of the shutdown.
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Democrats and Republicans say they have made progress in recent
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days on discussions about passing individual appropriations bills, although passing
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those bills alone would not reopen the government, but lawmakers
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hope bipartisan progress on appropriations will help pay the way
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to an agreement on ending the shutdown. While Durbin said
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the end of the shutdown may be near, not every
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Democrat agrees that the two parties are close to ending
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the shutdown, or that compromising with Republicans right now is
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a good idea. Senator Bernie Sanders, independent from Vermont, Warren
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Saturday that it would be a betrayal for Democrats to
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cave to Republicans now. Democrats and Congress are the last
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remaining opposition to Trump's quests for absolute power. Sanders wrote
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in an op ed in The Guardian, to surrender now
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would be an historic tragedy for our country, something that
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history will not look kindly upon. Our next article from
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today's front page is entitled for Those Who Lost Everything,
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A Fellowship of Catastrophe, a conference brings wildfire survivors together
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to find community and share tips. By Reese Thibald from Sonoma, California.
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Amy Bernstein and Grace Park weren't sure what to expect
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when they walked into the beige paneled auditorium in California
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Wine Country. Other attendees were lanyards that bore the names
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of places now seared into history, Santa Rosa, Paradise, Jehina.
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A message on the big screen read Welcome Los Angeles
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to the worst club of the best people. The pair
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faith leaders from the l enclave of Pacific Palisades realized
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this wasn't a normal conference. The room was full of
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fire survivors like them, and they were attending what felt
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more like an initiation. They were among the newest members
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of this club of catastrophe. The Summit, an annual affair
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organized by the nonprofit group after the fire, brings together survivors,
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emergency responders, and other disaster experts to trade ideas about
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recovery and to symbolically swear in the latest class of
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devastated communities. This year, the first timers were from the
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Palisades in Altadena, two Los Angeles neighborhoods where January's firestorm
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destroyed more than sixteen thousand buildings and killed at least
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thirty one people. Bernstein and Park were hesitant. Emotions were
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still raw, but when they arrived they felt the of
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comfort that comes only from being surrounded by people who
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get it. I felt less lonely instantly, said Bernstein, the
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senior Rabbi at Gihilat Israel, who lost her Palisades home.
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It's just really normalizing at a time when you feel
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like a freak. After the fire, founded in the ashes
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of the twenty seventeen blazes that tore through this region
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has deployed the sides of the nation's worst wildfires. The organization,
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survivors say, fills a key gap at a time when
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increasingly destructive fires have strained the capacity of governments to respond.
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The group's leaders encourage survivors from different disasters to mentor
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one another through the long rebuilding process. They become each
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other's pen pals, sounding boards, cheerleaders, and the annual summit
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is equal parts resource, fare and support group, akin to
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a gathering for those affected by a rare malady. When
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you're plunged knee deep into it, you are very grateful
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for someone in the room who deeply understands what you're
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feeling and what you are going through, said Park, the
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associate pastor of Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church, which was lost
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in the fire. The conference center and open air venue
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near the hills that burned eight years ago was decorated
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in signs bearing inspirational mantras and maxims. One read recover, rebuild,
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reimagine another it wasn't just stuff, it was my stuff.
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Bernstein clocked them and felt at home. That's the scripture
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of fire survivors, she said. They are quotes from our
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sacred text, the text of our lives. We become the experts.
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When Jennifer Gray Thompson's hometown in California's North Bay caught
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fire in October twenty seventeen, she assumed there would be
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a protocol for a disaster of this scale. What I
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always thought was, oh, it's a disaster. There's a system.
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The cavalry will come and they'll tell me where to go,
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said Gray Thompson, a former teacher then working in the
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office of a Sonoma County supervisor. Then I waited for
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survivors of other types of calamities, such as hurricanes and floods.
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It's a familiar experience. Local, state, and federal authorities are
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often overwhelmed initially and ill equipped for the arduous recovery process.
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This was especially true in twenty seventeen, still early in
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the modern age of American mega fires. The organization that
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would become after the fire began as a local effort
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to coordinate the response to the North Bay blazes. But
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in Gray Thompson's first year CEO, the massive Camp and
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Woolsey fires erupted on the same day at opposite ends
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of California, and she realized there would be many more
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places in need of guidance. Since then, after the fire,
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still a small organization that doesn't charge for its services
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and relies on philanthropy, has traveled to burn scars across
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the West, from Hawaii to Colorado, and has lobbied Congress
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on behalf of survivors. My intensity today is the same
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as it was almost eight years ago, Gray Thompson said.
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At this year's summit, Jeff Okrepke, who lost his home
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in the twenty seventeen Tubs fire in northern California, noticed
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that the room seemed unusually crowded. He was glad at
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Firus to see such strong attendants. Then he realized with
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a pang, oh wait, they're here because there was another fire. Okrepke,
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now a Santa Rosa City council member, has bonded with
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federal survivors over dark humor and f bombs. There's a
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sheer trauma, Okrepkey said. We all ran in the middle
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of the night at the drop of a hat to
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save our lives. We know the terror. It brings you closer.
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Thayer Calvin, born and raised in Altadena, was one of
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the new faces this year. His sister, Evelyn mc clendon,
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was among the Eton fires nineteen victims. He lost his
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own house and several of his family members lost there,
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but like others, he has channeled his grief into activism
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and he's working to help his neighbors rebuild. We become
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the experts, he said. Meeting other experts, he added, was
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both comforting and inspiring. It brought that peace to the soul,
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Calvin said. Many of those Calvin spoke with recounted a
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similar experience during their first years of recovery. Malay County
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Mayor Richard Bisson, whom Calvin has consulted multiple times, said
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it was important to reciprocate after the outpouring of support
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following the island's twenty twenty three fires. We're here to
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return the favor, Bisson said, to give back to the
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folks who gave so much to us. It's not just
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first timers who benefit. Between panels. Jennifer Singer, rub who
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lived through the twenty twenty one Marshall fire in Colorado
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track down Casey Taylor from Paradise. Singer Rup and many
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of her neighbors have rebuilt their homes in Boulder County,
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but they struggle to find affordable insurance. Taylor had surprising
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information to share. Paradise's strict fire safety rebuilding requirements persuaded
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at least one insurer to write more policies there. Singer
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Rup now hopes her community can eventually adopt similar standards.
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We're all in these little silos, she said, and when
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you come to a place like this, you can exchange
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information and get new ideas. In these conversations. Taylor thinks
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of herself as sending a message from the future. I
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see the light at the end of my tunnel. I
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see the light at the end of your tunnel. Also,
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it's who I am for. Paul Lowenthal, recovery began as
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a job as both the Santa Rosa firefighter and fire survivor.
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He became a go to adviser for his neighbors and
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his city government. When other communities asked for guidance. He
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was happy to help, but it was always more of
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a professional pursuit. Then Gray Thompson invited him to Maui.
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Fires had leveled Hina and the island's leaders were wary
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of outsiders, but Lowenthal met with John Smith, head of
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the Maui Recovery Office, and won him over. Smith called
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Lomenthal his crystal ball because he always seemed to know
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what was coming next, from infrastructure issues to emotional burnout.
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Since that first trip, Lowenthal has traveled to Maui nine times,
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planning family vacations there so he can visit Smith and
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work with him on the latest recovery problem. It was
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more of a job for me originally, but it has
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truly shifted, Lowenthal said. Now it's who I am. It's
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a passion. Disaster has already inspired survivors of the Los
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Angeles fires to make this same shift. Patty Raderman and
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Ile Wright did not know where to turn after their
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Altadena home burned. They were dazed, mourning, exhausted, and trying
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to sort through a torrent of information. Wright filled legal
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pads with everything he learned about debris removal and public adjusters.
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Then he began sharing it on Instagram and the posts
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went viral. Survivors from other fires commented, offering more help
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and support. It was absolutely incredible and life saving, he said.
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Gray Thompson got in touch and introduced him and Radaman
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to more survivors and experts who helped fact check wrights,
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p s as Before long, Radaman, who worked in tech
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start ups, and Wright, a writer and documentarian, decided on
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a career change. They founded post Fire, a non profit
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clearing house for recovery resources that translates a jargon of forms, claims,
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and appeals. It was inspired in part by the help
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they received from other survivors. They're almost like sentinels. I
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can feel them watching over me, Wright said, I will
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do that for the next fires. Our next item is
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entitled SNAP Funding will be released move follows two court
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orders money will cover half of month's food assistance by
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Marianna Alfaro. The Trump administration said Monday that it will
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release enough funds to pay for a half month's worth
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of food assistance benefits in November, days after two courts
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ordered the U. S. Department of Agriculture to release the
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money to avoid forcing almost forty two million Americans into
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food insecurity. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program known as SNAP
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or food stamps lost funding after the Trump administration said
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it would not tap into a five point five billion
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dollar contingency fund to pay for the benefit. On Friday,
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a federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the administration to
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release back up funds, moments after another federal judge in
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Massachusetts directed the government to decide by Monday whether it
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would use the contingency funds for food aid. Us DA
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said Monday that it will comply with the Rhode Island
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judges to order. The department's lawyers, in a Monday brief
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wrote that the agency will fulfill its obligation to expend
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the full amount of SNAP contingency funds to day. The
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White House deferred comment to the Office of Management and Budget, which,
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along with the U s d A, did not respond
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to request for comment. SNAP regularly costs a federal government
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about nine billion dollars a month, but the federal shut down,
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which has lasted more than a month, has affected the program.
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Because Congress has not appropriated new funds for it, the
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available money in the contingency funding will pay for only
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about half of November's benefits. In the Monday brief, Patrick Penn,
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the Deputy under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services
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at USDA said that the Food and Nutrition Service, which
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administers SNAP, will spend about four hundred fifty million dollars
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of the contingency funds paying for states to administer the
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program this month. An additional one hundred fifty million dollars
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will be used for food assistance programs in Puerto Rico
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and American Samoa, and the remaining four point sixty five
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billion dollars in the fund will be used to pay
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for SNAP benefits. That money, Penn said, will cover fifty
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percent of each eligible household's current allotment. This means that
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no funds will remain for new SNAP applicants certified in
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November disaster resistance or as a cushion against the potential
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catastrophic consequences of shutting down SNAP entirely. Pen wrote in
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the brief. The Trump administration had argued earlier that it
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would not tap the SNAP contingency fund because it did
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not want to spend money that could be used in
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an emergency, such as a natural disaster. USDA said it
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will generate a table required by states to calculate which
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benefits will be made available for each eligible household. States
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will be able to make the SNAP payments once the
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table is released to them, according to the brief. In
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the brief, USDA said it would not tab a twenty
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three billion dollar fund for school lunch and child nutrition programs,
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known as Section thirty two funding. Democrats in Congress and
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anti hunger advocates have called for the Trump administration to
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tap those funds to fill in the SNAP shortfall and
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let lawmakers patch the whole in child nutrition funding. Later
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in the brief, USDA said that program was separate from
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SNAP in terms of legal authority, appropriations, accounts, and operations.
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Section thirty two child Nutrition program funds are not a
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contingency fund for SNAP, the agency's lawyers wrote in the brief.
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Using billions of dollars from child new Attrition for SNAP
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would leave an unprecedented gap in child nutrition funding that
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Congress has never had to fill with annual appropriations, and
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USDA cannot predict what Congress will do under these circumstances.
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While Democratic leaders and anti hunger groups celebrated the agency's
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decision Monday to release partial payments, many argued that the
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administration should still find ways to pay out full SNAP benefits.
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In statements, democratic Senators Ben Ray Luhan from New Mexico
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and Amy Klobachar Minnesota accused the Trump administration of continuing
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to withhold taxpayer dollars from folks who need it most
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while doing the bare minimum to get partial payments out,
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and Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, a Democrat, said that wild
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states are awaiting clarity on when the Trump administration will
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make the partial SNAP payments available. The White House should
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not stop there. President Trump should commit to fully funding
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SNAP benefits and make these full benefits available as soon
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as possible, she said. Republicans, however, continued blaming Democrats for
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the funding impasse. Speaking on the Senate floor Monday, Senate
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Majority Leader John Thune, Republican from South Dakota, said SNAP
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is now running on limited emergency funds. The programme's future,
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he said, is uncertain. Millions more Americans are now at
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risk of going hungry, soon, said, Yet the Democrats shut
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down marches on. Senator Jeff Murkley, Democrat from Oregon, tried
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to pass a bill Monday night that would force the
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Trump administration to fully fund the SNAP program through November.
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All Senate Democrats except Senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania co
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sponsored the measure. Children, seniors, the disabled, the veterans are
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most vulnerable. They're not bargaining ships, Merkley said on the
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Senate floor Monday. Senator John bro Republican from Wyoming, blocked it,
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arguing the measure is meaningless because Democrats have repeatedly voted
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to keep the government shut down. Riley Began and Jacob
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Bogash contributed to this report. Next an item entitled watching
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for Signals in New Jersey's Latino vote by Hannah Knowles
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and Sabrina Rodriguez from Clifton, New Jersey. John Curry was
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blunt with the Democrats who rallied here over the weekend
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for the gubernatorial nominee Mickey Cheryl Passeic County let me down.
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In twenty twenty four, the local Democratic party chair told
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the room the heavily Latino area was once a Democratic stronghold,
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but flipped to Donald Trump last year, part of a
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broader shift away from Democrats among voters of color. A
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lot of our people drank the kool aid, Curry lamented.
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Now New Jersey's high profile governor's race offered a chance
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to regain their support. Have your grocy prices gone down down,
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Curry asked, reminding the crowd about Trump's promise to lower costs. No,
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the room shouted. Tuesday's election will test whether Republicans can
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hold on to trump Led gains with voters of color,
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and how well Democrats can capitalize on what polls show
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is significant dissatisfaction with Trump's second term. While strategists will
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be examining election returns from Virginia to California on Tuesday,
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the outcome in New Jersey and especially Passaic County is
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likely to receive extra scrutiny. The results could offer clues
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about both parties standing heading into the twenty twenty six midterms.
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The President is not on the ballot on Tuesday or
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next year, but Democrats hope to turn down ballot races
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into a referendum on his administration. Hector Laura, the politically
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independent mayor of Passaic whose parents immigrated from the Dominican Republic,
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did not endorse in the presidential race last year, and
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he declined to say how he voted, But this year
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he is vocally supporting Cheryl. He said she can work
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across the aisle, but also stand up to the administration
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when necessary. Voters thought Trump would come in and force
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Washington to get the work done, Laura said in an
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interview Sunday, Right now, what we see is a government
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shut down and people who are not sure whether their
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benefits will continue, and divisiveness. Many people in his area
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also believe that Trump's immigration crackdown has gone too far,
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he said. Yet Republicans also have reasons for optimism. New
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Jersey moved toward Trump more than any state besides New York.
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Class fall and minority voters were a big part of
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the story. GOP gubernatorial pick Jack Ciarelli is courting voters
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of color and has kept the race unusually competitive, making
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the outcome in areas like Passaic County potentially decisive. What
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happened in twenty twenty four was a lesson that a
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lot of voters who have been kind of under the
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spell of the Democratic machine said, we're not doing this
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any more, said Chris Russell, a strategist for Seat A
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rally that opens a big door for Republicans, and we
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made sure we barge through that door and are not
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waiting for those voters to come. All around Passaic County,
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an urban and suburban community not far from New York
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City were reminders of the federal actions that Democrats hope
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will provoke a backlash. A lapse and stamp funding triggered
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by a government shut down. Just stop food stamps from
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going out. An ad from the Department of Homeland Security
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played on the radio touting Trump's mass deportation campaign to
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a community full of emigrants. If you are here illegally,
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your next Homeland Security Secretary Christy L. Nome warns in
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the ad. The Trump Administration's message has reverberated among emigrant
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families around New Jersey. We live in fear for what's
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happening with Ice, said Raphael Escalante, twenty three, a Cheryl
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supporter who attended her rally with former President Barack Obama
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in Newark this weekend, referring to immigration and customs enforcement.
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My mom doesn't go out anymore because of what's happened
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on the national level. This is not America. Still, some
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Democrats acknowledge that republicans outreach to Latino voters has been formidable.
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Alex Butler, a twenty four year old Cheryl supporter, recalled
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volunteering for the Cheryl campaign this fall at the Dominican
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Parade in Patterson, a city in Passaic County where Democrats
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have lost ground. Cheryl was unable to attend, Butler said,
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but Siattarelli did at the same parade where Jack had
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like a whole group of Latinos around him. We could
28:49
barely get enough Latino people on the float. Butler said,
28:53
Jack walking around with this group was definitely like whoe.
28:57
Siattarelli has made a point to appear at a Latino
29:00
community events and campaign in Democratic territory while blaming state
29:05
Democratic leadership for high costs and pitching himself as a
29:09
one who can bring change. Paterson resident Raymond Leone said
29:13
he voted for Trump announced at a rally because he
29:16
thinks many years of local Democratic leadership has done little
29:20
for the city. We need a change, he said. Trump
29:25
hasn't increased the taxes in New Jersey, echoed Jose Orongo,
29:28
the GOP chair in Hudson County, Trump hasn't created all
29:32
the red tape in New Jersey. Trump cut into Democrats'
29:37
long time advantage with voters of color last year, leaving
29:40
some Democrats alarmed about the cracks and their coalition and
29:44
what they could mean for future elections. Trump won white
29:48
voters by similar margins to his lead in twenty twenty
29:51
and twenty sixteen, one Pew survey found, but his share
29:55
of Hispanic voters shot up from thirty six percent in
29:58
twenty twenty to forty eight percent in twenty twenty four.
30:02
He also gained ten points with Asian American voters and
30:05
roughly doubled his support among Black voters to fifteen percent,
30:09
according to the survey. Polling suggests that voters have soured
30:14
on Trump since he took office. However, a quarter of
30:17
Hispanic adults had a somewhat or very favorable view of
30:21
Trump in an October Associated Press nork pole, down from
30:26
forty four percent in an AP nork pole before his
30:29
term started. Last month's Post to ABC IPSOS poll found
30:34
that eighty four percent of Black Americans disapprove of Trump,
30:37
up from seventy eight percent in February. In Passaic County,
30:41
Trump won about fifty percent of the vote, up from
30:44
forty one percent in twenty twenty. Democratic strategist Chuck Roache,
30:50
whose firm knocked on one hundred thousand doors of Latino
30:53
voters in New Jersey as part of Cheryff's coordinated campaign,
30:57
said a lot of Latinos in New Jersey and summoned
31:00
Virginia gave a chance to Donald Trump because they were
31:03
frustrated with cost of living and didn't feel Democrats were
31:07
speaking to that. There's a lot of anxiety. We're hearing,
31:11
there's a lot of regret, like we gave this guy
31:13
a chance and he's screwing it. In their final pitches
31:17
this weekend to some of the most diverse pockets of
31:20
New Jersey, Democrats focused much of their rhetoric on Trump.
31:25
At a rally for Cheryl at a Colombian restaurant in
31:27
the majority Hispanic city of Elizabeth, multiple speakers noted that
31:32
snap benefits were frozen and that the Democratic governor was
31:35
mobilizing the National Guard to distribute food in the interim.
31:39
We can't feed hungry people in the richest nation on earth,
31:43
Cheryl said later at our Passaic County rally, I'm angry.
31:48
She had a rally focused on state issues and dissatisfaction
31:52
with longtime Democratic leadership. In Trenton, at a rally the
31:55
same day, he accused Cheryl of basing her campaign on
31:59
her quote hatred of Trump. If you get a flat
32:02
tire today, it's President Trump's fault. She had a rally,
32:06
joked there is nothing she won't blame on the president.
32:09
Rodriguez reported from Washington. Dylan Wells and Scott Clement contributed
32:14
to this report. Our next dynam is entitled many Ballroom
32:19
donors have business before the Administration by Jonathan Edwards. Most
32:24
of the publicly identified donors to President Donald Trump's White
32:28
House Ballroom have high stakes business before the administration, ranging
32:33
from billions in government contracts to federal investigations into their companies.
32:38
According to a report released Monday by a government watchdog group,
32:42
more than half of the companies that donated are facing
32:46
or have recently faced, federal enforcement actions tied to alleged
32:50
wrongdoing that includes engaging and unfair labor practices, deceiving consumers,
32:55
and harming the environment. According to the report from Public Citizen,
32:59
a consumer advocacy organization, the nonprofit, founded in nineteen seventy
33:04
one by left leaning political activists Ralph Nader, focuses on
33:08
corporate money and influence in government. The donors have sprawling
33:13
interests that touch nearly every aspect of American life, including tariffs, technology, taxation,
33:20
online privacy, and manufacturing. The analysis focused on the three
33:25
dozen corporate and individual donors of Trump administration has disclosed,
33:30
plus three more that have since been publicly identified. It
33:33
found the group has received two hundred seventy nine billion
33:37
dollars in government contracts over the past five years and
33:41
spent one point six billion dollars in political contributions and
33:45
lobbying fees during that time. The list contains heavyweights in
33:49
the tech, financial, and defense sectors, including Google, Comcast, and
33:54
Lockheed Martin. Thereeport adds to concerns voiced in recent weeks
33:59
by demo credit lawmakers and preservationists who have questioned the
34:03
deals financing and Trump's demolition of the East Wing to
34:07
make room for his ninety thousand square foot project. Many
34:11
of the donors identified by the White House, including Altria Group, Amazon,
34:16
and Apple, have previously donated to Trump's inauguration fund or
34:20
other GOP initiatives. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.
34:27
They have massive interests before the federal government, and they
34:30
hope to undoubtedly curry favor with and receive favorable treatment
34:34
from the Trump administration. Public Citizen co President Robert Weisman
34:39
said in a statement. Millions to fund Trump's architectural whims
34:43
are nothing compared to the billions at stake in procurement, regulatory,
34:48
and enforcement decisions. Only three companies named in the report,
34:53
Lockheed Martin, Navidia, and Microsoft, responded to requests for comment.
34:58
None disclose the amount of gay, although Trump said while
35:02
hosting a thank you White House dinner for donors last
35:05
month that some had offered as much as twenty five
35:07
million dollars. We maintain strong working relationships with every administration
35:13
to ensure our armed forces and allies are equipped with
35:17
the most advanced technologies to deter and defeat evolving threats,
35:21
a lockeyed Martin spokesperson said in a statement, adding that
35:25
the company adheres to laws and regulations governing its engagement
35:29
with the federal government. The White House said Monday that
35:33
the administration has been transparent and that soliciting private donations
35:38
takes the burden off taxpayers. The same critics who were
35:41
wrongly claiming their conflicts of interests would complain if taxpayers
35:45
were footing the bill. Press Secretory Caroline Levitt said in
35:48
a statement the donors for the White House Ballroom project
35:52
represent a wide array of great American companies and generous individuals,
35:57
all of whom are contributing to make the people's House
36:00
better for generations to come. Public buildings should be funded
36:04
with public money to ensure American voters, through their congressional representatives,
36:09
get a say in what gets built and how, Weisman
36:12
said in an interview. If the White House is the
36:15
people's house, then construction should be paid for by the people,
36:20
not by private, corporate and billionaire donors who have something
36:23
to gain from making a donation to the president's pet project.
36:27
He said. Fourteen of the two dozen publicly named corporate
36:31
donors face federal enforcement actions or have had such actions
36:36
suspended by Trump administration officials since the start of the
36:39
second term. Three Port states. They include Amazon, which the
36:43
Justice Department accused of fraudulently concealing worker injuries, and Apple,
36:48
which benefited in September when the National Labor Relations Board
36:52
withdrew its claims that the company had violated workers' rights.
36:55
Three Port states the companies should withdraw their donations to
37:00
Trump's ill advised pet project. Weisman said the White House
37:04
donor list is not comprehensive. Public Citizen noted the watchdog
37:09
group included in its analysis three corporate donors the White
37:12
House did not disclose, but were subsequently identified by CBS News.
37:17
The New York Times reported Trump's fundraisers have been circulating
37:21
donation pledge forms that give people the option of withholding
37:25
their identities from public disclosure. The White House told the
37:28
Times that officials will release the identities of donors who
37:32
wish to be named publicly, but that others have the
37:35
option to remain anonymous, and we will honor that if
37:38
that's what they choose. Senator Adam Shipp, Democrat from California,
37:44
and his colleagues last week demanded the White House provide
37:48
a complete accounting of how it is paying for the ballroom,
37:51
including any deals with donors. Representative Bernie G. Thompson, Democrat
37:57
from Mississippi, the top Democrat on the House come on
38:00
Homeland Security, said he didn't know which official or agency
38:04
to consult to get more information about the project. Lawmakers
38:09
expressed frustration that the White House didn't consult Congress or
38:12
seek approval from at least two relevant federal commissions before
38:16
demolishing the East Wing in three days. I can find
38:20
any accessible drawings. I can't find a permit, Thompson said,
38:25
and then I see a bulldozer tearing down the east
38:28
side of the White House. On July thirty first, the
38:32
White House announced the ballroom project, which Trump promised at
38:35
the time wouldn't quote interfere with the existing building. On site,
38:40
work started in September, with crews cutting down trees and
38:44
digging up parts of the south lawn. On October twenty first,
38:48
demolition crews started tearing down the east wing and within
38:53
three days had turned the annex into rubble. Trump has
38:57
promised to finish the building before he leaves office. When
39:01
the administration announced the project, it said the ballroom would
39:04
cost about two hundred million dollars and hold six hundred
39:07
fifty guests. Estmund's Trump increased late last month to three
39:12
hundred million dollars and nearly one thousand people. Americans opposed
39:16
the demolition of the annex to make way for the
39:19
ball room building by a two to one margin, according
39:22
to a Washington Post a b C News IPSOS poll
39:24
released last week. Now, the final item from to Day's
39:29
front page is entitled A costly, confusing hunt for a
39:33
non existing cure. Family navigates false hope for autism treatments
39:39
by Tricia Faddani from Rochester Hills, Michigan. Wrangling three children
39:45
with autism consumed Dana Podichowski's days in a chaotic swirl,
39:50
her weeks dissolving into a blur of routines and meltdowns.
39:54
When the house finally quieted at night, the mother would
39:58
stay awake for hours, sk gutherering the Internet from magic
40:01
treatment that didn't exist. Instead of finding answers, Padachowski said
40:07
she constantly stumbled into expensive rabbit holes of broken promises.
40:12
Over the past few years, Padachowski estimates she and her
40:16
husband have spent at least thirty thousand dollars on unproven
40:20
alternative treatments for her children and intervenous therapy to remove
40:25
heavy metals from her son's body, a clinic with hyperbaric
40:28
oxygen chambers, supplements, new diets, and naturopathic doctors. While some
40:34
helped in small ways, others made no difference. In a
40:38
few cases, she said her children became sick and pale
40:42
or regressed. I just thought, Oh, we're going to get
40:46
this test, and then we're going to get results, and
40:49
then we're going to fix this one thing, and then
40:52
he's going to talk and break out of his autism shell,
40:55
she said on a recent afternoon, standing in her kitchen
40:58
as fifteen year old Caleb, her oldest, jumped and flapped
41:02
his arms to an episode of Sesame Street blaring on
41:04
the TV. But none of that has ever happened, she said.
41:09
Podachowski's journey into unproven and sometimes risky treatments highlights how
41:15
parents of autistic children frequently navigate a confounding mix of
41:19
conflicting advice, purported miracle treatments, and false hope in a
41:25
bid to improve symptoms of a mostly genetic disorder that
41:28
has no cure. Experts say only behavioral therapy has been
41:33
shown to address the core symptoms of the disorder, while
41:36
medications like antidepressants or antipsychotics can help co occurring symptoms
41:42
such as anxiety or irritability. Now, as Health Secretary Robert F.
41:47
Kennedy Junior makes autism a central focus of his Make
41:50
America Healthy Again agenda and pushes unsubstantiated causes and cures
41:56
in the process, Podachowski said, there's a new layer of
42:00
confusion on whom to trust and where to turn. Fringe
42:05
treatments for autism have long tempted some individuals and families
42:09
struggling with the disorder, which is a neurodevelopmental condition that
42:13
presents itself differently in each person. There's little evidence of
42:17
effectiveness for common alternatives behavioral therapy that are widely cited
42:22
on the internet, according to a study this year in
42:24
the Nature Human Behavior Journal. Still, the study found up
42:29
to ninety percent of autistic individuals reported having tried some
42:33
type of alternative treatment at least once in their lifetime.
42:37
Medical professionals who treat children with autism said in interviews
42:42
that parents often ask about supplements or off level medications
42:46
they heard about on the internet, even more frequently since
42:49
the Trump administration elevated the issue. Some have seen parents
42:53
turn toward extremes, animas of diluted bleached solutions, raw camel's milk,
43:00
costly trips abroad for stem cell treatments not backed by
43:03
solid evidence. There's danger, and then there's just the overall cost,
43:09
said a Folly Jesty, chair of pediatrics at the UCLA
43:12
David Geffen's School of Medicine and a child neurologist specializing
43:17
in autism. Cost doesn't just mean money, but cost in time,
43:22
in energy, in emotional investment. These days, Jessey said many
43:28
parents are asking her about lucovorn, a form of vitamin
43:32
B nine to treat autism and children, which has shown
43:35
some promise but lacks rigorous clinical trials proving benefit. Kennedy
43:41
and President Donald Trump have widely promoted the generic cancer drug,
43:46
and the Food and Drug Administration recently said it will
43:49
approve it for patients with cerebral fully deficiency, often associated
43:54
with the symptoms of autism. The move set off a
43:57
wave of hope among families coping with all autism, but
44:01
also drew warnings about the many unknowns. Kennedy and Trump
44:05
have also promoted the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism.
44:11
Emily Hillard, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and
44:14
Human Services, said the agency understands that families affected by
44:19
autism often face difficult choices and a flood of conflicting information.
44:25
The Department's focus is on helping families make decisions grounded
44:29
in the best available science and supporting continued research to
44:34
improve understanding and treatment of autism spectrum disorder, Hilliard said.
44:40
Years after her children were diagnosed, Padachowski, a special education teacher,
44:45
said she and her husband, a retail manager at a
44:48
local hardware store learned they both carry a gene that
44:52
increased the likelihood of autism in their family. Still, she said,
44:57
they poured money they didn't have into treatments not covered
45:01
by insurance. The costs piled up quickly. All three children
45:06
are affected by the disorder differently, meaning separate approaches for each. Caleb,
45:12
who has a massive smile and a big laugh, is
45:15
unable to engage in back and forth conversation and still
45:18
wears diapers. His bursts of energy can be so explosive
45:23
that his parents placed many trampolines around the house so
45:26
he can regulate himself. Emma thirteen, a sporty girl who
45:31
loves music, is easily over stimulated and sometimes disappears into
45:36
little green swing in the basement to calm down. Ava eleven,
45:41
the youngest and a cheerleader, is less affected by the disorder,
45:46
but has a hard time connecting socially. Each of the
45:50
Padachowski children previously participated in behavioral therapy, considered the standard
45:55
of care by medical experts for managing anxiety and emotional outbursts,
46:00
but when it comes to other symptoms, like the inability
46:04
to communicate regularly, or obey themselves. Padachowski said she was
46:08
easily lured by therapy she found online that claimed they
46:12
would fix her children or make them less different. She
46:17
has since changed her thinking, saying her children are not
46:20
to be fixed, but that they just need the tools
46:23
to each live the best version of their own life. Still,
46:27
in dissecting her past desperation, she said it was hard
46:31
to shake the feeling that she did something wrong and
46:34
that it was her job to make them better. I
46:38
grew them in my body. I must have done something.
46:41
I must have caused this, she said, her voice catching,
46:45
and I was like, well, if I caused it, I
46:48
need to fix it. That's why we went down all
46:51
these avenues. Expensive hope stopped. Inside Padachowski's entryway closet is
46:58
a thick stack of bills, test results, and diagnoses from
47:02
various doctors and clinics she has tried over the years.
47:06
The pile, she said, is a triggering sight. First, there
47:10
was a doctor who said Caleb couldn't talk because his
47:13
body was overloaded with heavy metal particles. He prescribed some
47:17
vitamins and suggested Padachowski change her pots and pans at home.
47:21
There's no credible evidence to support the link between heavy
47:24
metal poisoning and autism, according to the Autism Science Foundation,
47:29
but Padachowski said the doctor felt like the first to
47:32
really listen to her. After a few months of appointments, labs,
47:37
follow ups, vitamins, and a new set of kitchenware, Padachowski
47:41
said she spent about three thousand, four hundred dollars for
47:45
no real change in her son. Then there was another
47:49
doctor who gave her husband bad vibes from the start.
47:52
The doctor, she said, told her that Emma and Caleb
47:55
were suffering from the impacts of a bad stripped throat infection,
48:00
a theory that also has no strong evidence connecting it
48:03
to autism, and prescribed a course of antibiotics. She gave
48:07
them the medication for a few weeks until she noticed
48:10
Emma was regressing and so irritable that one day she
48:14
threw herself into a wall and there went another two
48:18
thousand dollars. Then there was the Oxford Center, a bright
48:23
and colorful clinic fifteen minutes from their home, which says
48:26
it takes a holistic approach to treating autism. Patachowski was
48:31
so blown away by what she read about the alternative
48:34
therapies they offer, including hyperbaric oxygen chambers and kulation therapy,
48:39
both of which are not FDA approved for treating autism,
48:43
that she created a GoFundMe to help pay for it.
48:46
She started caleb Unculation at the urging of one of
48:49
the clinic's doctors, who said the therapy would cleanse her
48:52
son's body of toxic chemicals. Petachowski said her son became
48:57
so ill from the nasty green shake needed to drink
49:00
to prep his body for the treatment that she stopped
49:03
it immediately. Padachowski never raised enough money to afford the
49:08
oxygen chambers at the clinic, but the family still stuck
49:11
with the clinic's other treatments, including supplements and alternative therapies.
49:17
Nearly twelve thousand dollars later, with little improvement in her children,
49:21
she left after learning that the therapist who worked with
49:24
her children was not licensed by the state and stole
49:28
another provider's credentials. The woman was later sentenced to several
49:32
years in prison. Her lawyer did not respond to a
49:35
request for comment. It was a godsend she stopped taking
49:39
her children to Oxford, Padachowski said, as a few years later,
49:43
a child undergoing treatment for ad h d and sleep apnea.
49:47
There was in an oxygen chamber when it caught fire
49:50
and killed him. The CEO of the clinic, which sits
49:54
in an empty office park with its shades pulled and
49:56
a padlock on its door, and to employees, I've been
50:00
charged with second degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, while a
50:04
third employee was charged with involuntary manslaughter and with falsifying
50:09
medical records. The victim's family also recently filed a lawsuit
50:13
against the center. The Oxford Center did not respond to
50:17
a request for comment, and lawyers for the defendants declined
50:21
or did not respond to a request for comment. A
50:24
lawyer for one of the defendants told local media that
50:27
it was a tragic accident and a horrific loss. Zoey Gross,
50:32
director of advocacy at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, said
50:36
she has a lot of sympathy for families that are
50:39
convinced to seek out unregulated treatments. Parents are set up
50:43
to fail here, she said, They are not given a
50:46
lot of scientific education. They are told to go home
50:49
and do your own research. People are really susceptible to
50:53
testimonials or inflated promises, but some families that have used
50:57
alternative treatments swear they've noticed remarkable improvements in their children.
51:03
Magdalena and Jamie Henderson said they were desperate for something
51:07
to help their nonverbal son when they stumbled upon biomagnetism,
51:11
a magnetic therapy that his FDA approved to treat certain
51:15
types of pain and other conditions, but is not recommended
51:18
as a treatment for autism. The Henderson said the therapy
51:22
helped their son with his balance, digestion, sleep, and communication.
51:28
Biomagnetic therapy has helped him the most, Jamie Henderson said,
51:33
is Harry Potter kind of stuff. Another parent, Jessica carrasco
51:38
order Luca Vorren from her neturopathic doctor as soon as
51:41
he watched a news conference last month where Trump and
51:44
Kennedy promoted use of the drug. She said the changes
51:48
in her eleven year old son have been dramatic. He
51:51
makes more eye contact, communicates better, and has even made
51:54
his own meals. In his statement, Hilliard, the HHS spokesperson,
51:59
said that early studies suggest potential benefits for a subset
52:03
of children, but Luca varn is not a cure for autism,
52:07
and additional research is needed to determine who may benefit
52:10
and why. But for Carrasco, the changes in her son
52:15
have given her a lot of hope for his future.
52:18
It's changed his life, she said. Padachowski hears such success
52:22
stories and feels torn between their rigorous testing involved with
52:26
conventional therapies and what she sees as hope and innovation
52:30
in non traditional medicines. She believes some dietary changes and
52:34
supplements have made changes in her children, who still sometimes
52:38
see a doctor specializing in such natural treatments. She wonders
52:42
what environmental factors could have exacerbated her children's disorders. She
52:47
keeps coming back to the childhood vaccines that she gave
52:49
to Caleb and Emma, but not Ava, who is much
52:53
less affected by the disorder than her older siblings. Padachowski
52:57
knows there's no scientific evidence to back up this, but
53:01
said she cannot ignore a pattern she sees in her
53:03
own home. You're left to piece all these things together,
53:07
she said, everyday life. On a recent afternoon, Padachowski came
53:13
home from a long day of work and into the
53:15
regular rhythms of her home. Her husband was cleaning the dishes,
53:19
and Caleb was belting out captions. Here was reading on
53:22
a cartoon playing on the TV. Emma was entranced by
53:26
her iPad, smiling and rubbing a safety blanket on her
53:29
face as she excitedly squealed at the videos. Ava ate
53:33
a snack and got ready for cheer practice. It can
53:36
get loud here in the afternoons. Patdachowski said some in
53:40
the autism community appreciate the attention from the Trump administration
53:45
and hope it will translate into more funding, research and support.
53:49
Padachowski also wants more research and support, but said news
53:53
conferences filled with unfounded claims don't help. What her family
53:58
also needs, she said, is just understanding that those with
54:01
autism may seem different, but they are special and talented
54:05
in their own way. Before bedtime, Emma sat in front
54:10
of her drum set to let out a last bit
54:12
of energy. The thirteen year old, who speaks in halting
54:15
words and its trouble maintaining eye contact was unnatural as
54:19
she banged the rhythm of her go tos Bohemian rhapsody
54:23
We Will Rock You and Beautiful Things by Benson Boone.
54:27
Padachowski clapped as Emma smiled up at her. Can you
54:31
play another, Padachowski asked, Now it's turn to inside the
54:36
a section of today's paper, where our next item is
54:39
entitled five Key moments from Trump's sixty Minutes interview. President
54:44
Donald Trump discussed immigration raids, Venezuela, and the government shut
54:48
down in a wide ranging interview on the CBS shell
54:52
by Niha Mussi, Jennifer Hassen, and Laura Wagner. President Donald
54:57
Trump appeared on sixty Minutes for a wide ranging interview
55:00
discussing hot button topics including Venezuela, immigration rates in democratic
55:06
led cities, and the government shut down. The interview, which
55:10
aired Sunday night, was conducted by correspondent Nora O'Donnell at
55:14
mar A Lago. On Friday, CEBAS aired a twenty seven
55:17
minute segment of the nearly seventy three minute long interviews.
55:21
That network published the extended version of the interview on YouTube.
55:25
The full transcript was made available online without cuts, though
55:29
the network said the longer cut had been condensed for clarity.
55:33
The video included several notable edits. It omitted a heated
55:37
exchange about Trump's pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zao, and
55:42
omitted Trump's boasts of securing a large legal settlement from Paramount,
55:46
the former parent company of Sixty Minutes. The edits were
55:49
previously reported by The Daily Beast. Trump's appearance on the
55:54
show follows a Washington Post ABC News IPSOS poll that
55:57
found a majority of Americans say he has got on
56:00
too far in exercising the powers of his office, and
56:03
that while forty one percent said the approve of the
56:06
job he's doing, fifty nine percent disapproved. It also comes
56:10
after Paramount paid sixteen million dollars to settle a lawsuit
56:14
that Trump filed during his twenty twenty four presidential campaign.
56:18
Trump alleged that his electoral chances were harmed after the
56:22
network aired two versions of an answer given by Democratic
56:25
presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Sixty Minutes regarding the Middle East.
56:31
Here are some key moments from the interview. Trump's boasts
56:35
about CBS News's former parent company paying out a sixteen
56:38
million dollars settlement were cut. Sections of the longer cut
56:42
of the interview were removed. The program eliminated lengthy portions
56:46
of a tense exchange about Trump's decision to pardons out
56:49
a crypto billionaire whose company helped facilitate a massive deal
56:53
for world Liberty Financial, a crypto company owned in part
56:57
by the Trump family. O'Donnell asked out the appearance of
57:01
pay for play. Part of Trump's answer was included in
57:04
the aired interview, but O'Donnell's follow ups and Trump's answers
57:07
in which he scolds o'donald for the question, were not.
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The news program also cut Trump bragging about securing a
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hefty settlement from Paramount after a lawsuit in which he
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alleged that the program had deceptively edited an interview with
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Harris to tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party. Actually,
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sixty minutes paid me a lot of money, and you
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don't have to put this on because I don't want
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to embarrass you, Trump said. According to the transcript, he
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added words of praise for CBS's new editor in chief,
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very wise. I think you have a great new leader. Frankly,
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who's a young woman that's leading a whole enterprise. Is
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a great from what I know, Trump said. These comments
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were also removed from the video. CBS did not respond
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to a request for comment about the edited version of
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the interview. Many legal experts said Trump's suit was unlikely
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to succeed in court, and that the settlement could undermine
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First Amendment press protections. Due to the constraints of time,
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we will be unable to complete this item. This concludes
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the reading of the Washington Post for to Day, Tuesday,
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November fourth, twenty twenty five. Your reader for to day
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has been Cindy Fraser. If you have any questions, comments,
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