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Dan Ronan
Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. The Trump administration says it could begin funding the nationwide SNAP program again this week. It as NPR's Joe Hernandez reports, it comes in response to rulings of two federal judges about whether the government has to use emergency funding to keep the food aid flowing.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Besant
Speaking on CNN's State of the Union, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said funding could resume by midweek.
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President Trump
President Trump wants to make sure that people get their food benefits. So it could it could be done by Wednesday. Could be.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Besant
Money for the federal program ran out on Saturday, a day before a federal judge in Rhode island ordered the government to use emergency money to fund SN benefits as soon as possible. The Trump administration previously argued that it could not use contingency funds to keep it afloat. Nearly 42 million Americans rely on SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The federal government has been shut down for more than a month. Joe Hernandez, NPR News.
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Dan Ronan
The U.S. supreme Court this week will hear arguments on whether President Trump overstepped his authority imposing tariffs against dozens of nations as a cornerstone of his economic agenda and also part of American foreign policy during his second term. Several court rulings have found the White House does not have the emergency powers to impose the tariffs, though a 1977 law allows presidents to regulate imports during an emergency. On Air Force One, the president outlined why he believes he has that authority.
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President Trump
I think it's the most important decision, one of the most important decisions in the history of our country, because without tariffs, without our being able to use tariffs freely, openly and in every way, we are really would suffer tremendously from a national security standpoint.
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Dan Ronan
The lower court left the tariffs in place. While the Supreme Court considers the issue, Belgium's defense chief is threatening to shoot down the next drones that enter the country's airspace. From Brussels, Terry Schultz reports unidentified aerial vehicles have repeatedly been seen hovering over a military base that houses U.S. nuclear weapons.
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Terry Schultz
For the second night in a row, drones were spotted flying over the Kleine Brugel military base in northeast Belgium. That's one of the locations in Europe where the US Stores nuclear weapons. It's the third military base in Belgium where drones have been detected in recent weeks. Belgian Defense Minister Theo Franken, who has previously said he wants to take down any such unmanned aerial vehicle seen above bases, reports that a weapon that should have done that jammed. In the latest incident, Franken says police tried to track the drones by helicopter and car, but they got away. The minister says he'll urgently ask the government for more resources to combat drones this week. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
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Dan Ronan
Wall street begins a new trading month on Monday. The Dow, the S and P and the Nasdaq were all up in the month of October. This is npr. There are now only a couple of days left in California's special election on a measure that could reshape how the state is represented in Congress. KQED's Billy Cruz reports. The measure was created in response to Texas successful redistricting.
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Billy Cruz
EFF Proposition 50 would allow state leaders to temporarily redraw congressional districts to be more favorable to Democrats. Outside a voting center in South San Francisco, Larry Heath explains why he is in support of Prop. 50.
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President Trump
I think it's necessary because things are happening in Texas. We gotta do our part to counterbalance that.
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Billy Cruz
Other voters, like Mark Wong, think the special election is a waste of money.
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Mark Wong
I, I don't think that California should be spending our own tax dollars on solving the nation's problems. We should be refocusing our money and dealing with our own issues here in this in our own state.
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Billy Cruz
Election Day is Tuesday. For NPR News, I'm Billy Cruz in South San Francisco.
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Dan Ronan
A homeowner in Heidelberg, Mississippi, Sunday shot and killed one of the research monkeys that escaped last Tuesday when a truck overturned on Interstate 59. The woman set her teenage son Al alerted her that a monkey was running in their yard. She grabbed a gun and shot the primate because she said she wanted to protect her children. The monkeys were housed at Tulane University's National Biomedical Research Facility in New Orleans. Most of the monkeys on the truck died in the crash, but at least three escaped and were missing at the time. I'm Dan Ronan, NPR News, in Washington.
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