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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump wants the government he leads to pay him billions of dollars. Trump has filed claims over the search of his Florida resort and the leak of his tax returns in 2019. As NPR's Carri Johnson reports, the president's.
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Asking for more than $10 billion because of damage he says he suffered after his tax returns became public and an FBI search for classified papers at Mar a Lago. The legal demands are putting his appointees at the Justice Department on the spot. Both the attorney general and the deputy AG once served as Trump's personal lawyers. A spokesperson there says officials follow the guidance of career ethics lawyers. Most legal claims like these against the government involve crashes of postal trucks or medical malpractice in federal hospitals for veterans. President Trump's demands for money are many times greater than in those run of the mill cases. He says he'll give any money he recovers to charity. Kerry Johnson, NPR News, Washington.
Giles Snyder (1:16)
Environmental and public health group sued the Trump administration today for ending regulations on climate pollution. They argue the White House is violating the law and rehashing arguments the Supreme Court already decided. Here's NPR's Jeff Brady.
Jeff Brady (1:31)
The Trump administration repealed the basis for federal action to rein in the greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The Environmental Protection Agency previously found that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. Now the Trump EPA reversed that endangerment finding, calling it the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history. Among the groups filing the lawsuit are the American Lung Association, Earthjustice and Public Citizen. The case likely will take years to litigate and could bring the issue of regulating climate pollution before a Supreme Court that is more conservative than the one that issued the original decision in 2007. Jeff Brady, NPR News.
Giles Snyder (2:08)
Authorities in Northern California say the bodies of eight backcountry skiers have been found. They say the eight were found fairly close together and that three of them were found by the skiers who survived Tuesday's avalanche near Lake Tahoe. One remains missing. The US Is becoming more renter friendly, according to a report from realtor.com on January's rental market. NPR's Stephen Psaha says more renters have bargaining power.