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5.5.25 Supreme Court tackles three high-stakes cases, David Bahnsen interprets the GDP, and Europe celebrates victory
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Mary Reichert
Good morning. A political map, a legal trap. Louisiana tried to follow the law but wound up back in court.
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Nick Eicher
We'd rather not be caught between two parties with diametrically opposed visions of what our congressional map should look like.
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Kent Covington
That's ahead today on Legal Docket. Also today, the Monday money beat. The economy shrank. The first three months of the year is recession right around the corner. David Bonson is standing by and the world history book Victory day in Europe 80 years ago.
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David Bonson
We join in offering our thanks to the Providence which has guided and sustained us.
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Mary Reichert
It's Monday, May 5th. This is the world and everything in it. From listener supported World Radio. I'm Mary Reichert.
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Kent Covington
And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.
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Mary Reichert
It's time for the News now with Kent Covington.
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Paul Butler
President Trump in a weekend interview with NBC's Meet the Press defended the ongoing trade war with China. The president acknowledged that there could be some short term pain for US Consumers. But he said of China, they're getting absolutely destroyed.
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David Bonson
Their factories are closing.
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Nick Eicher
Their unemployment is going through the roof. I'm not looking to do that to China now. At the same time, I'm not looking to have China make hundreds of billions of dollars and build more ships and more army tanks and more airplanes.
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Paul Butler
He predicted that the US Economy will remain strong and said there are plenty of experts on Wall street who believe the same. The S&P 500 finished last week on a nine day win streak after earlier losses tied to tariff anxiety and the federal jobs report came in stronger than expected on Friday. Lawmakers are weighing in on a shakeup in the Trump administration. Last week, President Trump removed Michael Waltz as national security adviser, but nominated him to be the next U.S. ambassador to the U.N. republican Congressman Mike Turner.
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David Bonson
Mike Waltz is, you know, has an.
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Paul Butler
Incredible background and experience and I'm certainly glad that he's going to be retained.
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Kent Covington
And staying in a strong role in this administration.
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Paul Butler
But Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth feels differently. She cited Waltz's role in accidentally looping in a reporter on a sensitive national security discussion using the encrypted messaging app Signal. He's not qualified for the job just.
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Mary Reichert
By nature of the fact that he.
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Nick Eicher
Participated in this signal chain.
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Mary Reichert
In fact, I think everybody on that signal chain needs to be fired.
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Paul Butler
With Waltz's departure from the White House, Marco Rubio will serve a dual role as both the Secretary of State and acting National Security advisor. New York GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik had been nominated for that ambassadorship to the UN but she stepped aside at the request of the White House due to concerns about the Republicans razor thin House majority. Now Stefanik is strongly considering a gubernatorial bid to unseat Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul in New York.
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Mary Reichert
Look at the crises that Kathy Hochul and single party Democrat rule have delivered to New Yorkers and this has been over the period of decades. We have an economic crisis and affordability crisis. If you look, we are the highest tax state in the nation.
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Paul Butler
But Democrats say she is too closely aligned with President Trump's agenda to be elected. In New York, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to retaliate after a missile attack by Iran backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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Nick Eicher
Obviously we're being challenged, the whole world.
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David Bonson
Is being challenged by the Houthis, including in the dastardly attack they did near Ben Gurion Airport. We will not tolerate it. We will take very strong action against them.
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Paul Butler
A missile launched from Yemen struck near Israel's main international airport, halting flights and commuter traffic on Sunday. At least eight people were injured. The attack came hours before Israeli cabinet members were set to vote on whether to intensify military operations. In Gaza. The army has begun to call up thousands of reservists in preparation for an expanded assault. Meantime, talks continue in an effort to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian Ambassador to the US Oksana Markarova told CBS's Face the US has been.
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Mary Reichert
And is a strategic partnership. We are really grateful to American people for all the support that we are getting from the US it would not be possible.
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Paul Butler
But Moscow appears no closer to agreeing to a ceasefire. A weekend Russian drone attack in kyiv reportedly wounded 11 people, including two children. Makarova also said Ukraine is happy to have agreed with the US On a new deal that will allow the United States to access rare earth minerals in Ukraine.
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Mary Reichert
This is an economic partnership agreement to create an investment fund for both of our nations to benefit from amazing investment opportunities that Ukraine has.
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Paul Butler
Ukrainian leaders hope the U.S. presence on the ground in those mining operations will deter attacks. Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over the weekend won re election to a second three year term.
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David Bonson
Australians have chosen the Australian Labor Party as their government and our government will choose the Australian way because we are proud of who we are and all that we have built together in this country.
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Paul Butler
Albanese's left of center Labour Party won an emphatic victory, easily capturing a majority in the country's House of Representatives. Opposition leader Peter Dutton lost his parliamentary seat and his coalition was reduced to 37 seats. I'm Kent Cuffington. And still ahead, a legal Battle over congressional district law lines in Louisiana. Plus the Monday money beat. This is the world and everything in it.
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Kent Covington
It's the world and everything in it for this fifth day of May 2025. We're so glad you've joined us today. Good morning. I'm Nick Eicher.
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Mary Reichert
And I'm Mary Reichard. Time now for legal docket. Today, a legal docket tripleheader. We've had a spate of really big cases and we're going to move fast today in an effort to catch up. Our first case, Louisiana vs Calais. The state of Louisiana finds its legal position on voting rights between a rock and a hard place. The rock is the constitutional requirement not to draw voting maps that focus too much on race. Doing so would violate the 14th amendment, specifically its equal protection clause.
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Kent Covington
But the hard place is the Voting Rights Act. Ignoring race would potentially violate Section 2 of that landmark law. So what's the state to do? For one thing, look to precedent. The Supreme Court has already ruled that race can be a consideration. It just can't be forever. Something Justice Brett Kavanaugh brought up during oral argument in our first case this.
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Nick Eicher
Morning on equal protection law, we've of course said that race based remedial action must have a logical endpoint, must be limited in time, must be a temporary matter of course. In school desegregation and university admissions, how does that principle apply to section 2?
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Kent Covington
Section 2 aimed to stop racial discrimination in voting, but it doesn't expressly guarantee outcomes.
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Mary Reichert
Still, back in 1986, the Supreme Court laid down a test in a case called Jingles. If an ethnic minority group is large, compact and politically cohesive, it might be entitled to a district that gives the minority group a good chance to elect its preferred candidate. Now fast forward to Louisiana. After the most recent census in 2020, it revealed that a third of the state's population is black. But only one of its six congressional districts contained a majority of black voters.
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Kent Covington
So a group of black voters sued and won. A federal court ordered Louisiana to draw congressional district boundaries in such a way as to create a second majority black district. The state complied, but the execution produced an odd Congressional District 6. It's a 250 mile long diagonal stripe that cuts from Shreveport in the northwest down to Baton Rouge in the south, stringing together distant black communities into a single district.
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Mary Reichert
Chief Justice John Roberts was not impressed with the design.
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Paul Butler
How?
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Nick Eicher
I mean, if you look at CD6, what does reasonably compact mean? I mean, it's a snake that runs from one end of the state to the other. That, I mean, how is that compact.
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Mary Reichert
In the next election? 2024 Republicans won four seats to the Democrats, too. That was a shift from five to one, GOP to four, two.
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Kent Covington
And that brought a new lawsuit. Philip Calais and 11 other plaintiffs claiming the new map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, saying it violates the equal protection Clause. Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguinaga explained the state's dilemma.
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Nick Eicher
Louisiana would rather not be here. We'd rather not be caught between two parties with diametrically opposed visions of what our congressional map should look like. But this has become life as usual.
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Mary Reichert
For the states under this court's voting cases.
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Nick Eicher
And our fundamental question today is how do we get out of this predicament?
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Mary Reichert
He found an ally in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who emphasized that Louisiana had been acting under a valid federal court order. I mean, it existed. And if it existed, then it seems to me that there is a good reason for Louisiana to have followed it.
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Kent Covington
But not every justice saw it the same way. The lower court's order was only preliminary. It hadn't ruled on the merits. So it was. And that raised a question. Was it wise for the state to use a not yet final order as the basis for drawing race conscious districts? Still, the core of the catch 22 remained. Here is Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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Mary Reichert
There's no way to comply with Section two.
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Kent Covington
Justice.
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Mary Reichert
So this is a cycle they can't get out of. Lawyer Stuart Naefe represented a different set of plaintiffs, led by longtime civil rights advocate Press Robinson. He's a trailblazer in Louisiana's civil rights movement. He and others argue the current map ensures fair representation for black voters and complies with federal law. So the two district map is necessary.
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Oksana Markarova
This court has been clear that states have breathing room to take reasonable efforts to comply with the Voting Rights Act. And breathing room ensures that courts don't unnecessarily intrude on the legislative domain simply because the state is attempting to comply.
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Paul Butler
With the Voting Rights Act.
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Mary Reichert
Nafee argued the lower court got it wrong. He said it treated Louisiana's effort to follow the Voting Rights act as inherently suspect, as if simply trying to comply with the law meant the state had bad motives. That, he warned, would create confusion for every state trying to draw legal maps. It could backfire and create more confusion, not less.
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Kent Covington
The core legal question here is the one we mentioned at the beginning. Can a state draw a map based on one court's view of the Voting Rights act without violating the Constitution's guarantee of equal treatment for all?
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Mary Reichert
And hovering over. The whole thing is chaos. Lawsuits stacking up, maps changing year to year, voters not knowing which district they're in. The process is exhausting and expensive.
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Kent Covington
The political stakes huge. Republicans hold the House by only a few seats. Flip one or two and the balance of power shifts. So the fight over Louisiana's map is not just a legal battle. It could tip the balance of power in Congress all right.
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Mary Reichert
On to another consolidated case. Oklahoma, VEPA and EPA versus Calumet. These cases are going to sound a little bit dry, but they do hit close to home. Clean air, electricity costs and how far federal agencies can go. The issue is venue, as in where should lawsuits against EPA be heard?
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Kent Covington
Now, Congress did try to spell that out in the Clean Air Act. If an EPA rule is nationwide, then the case goes straight to the D.C. circuit. If it's regional, then it belongs in a local federal appeals court. Simple enough until EPA starts to blur the lines. What happens when EPA bundles a group of regional decisions together and calls it national? That's at the heart of EPA v. Calumet. Justice Clarence Thomas, Mr. Stewart, are there.
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Mary Reichert
Any limits to aggregating different claims, thereby determining venue in D.C. is EPA Gaming the system to get friendlier courts? Justice Neil Gorsuch asked what changed besides the EPA's bundling tactic? The small refineries who say they were wrongly denied rule exemptions want to fight that out in courts closer to home. The 5th Circuit agreed, but the EPA did not and appealed to the Supreme Court. Justice Gorsuch seemed to lean in the agency's direction.
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Kent Covington
I should hope EPA applies a consistent statutory interpretation across the country. So how can it be that that's, that's what we should look at? I mean, venue is supposed to be simple. But Justice Jackson brought the focus back to Congress and its original intention. Local facts go local, national rules stay national.
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Mary Reichert
The venue provision appears to be designed to direct challenges that will turn on local facts and issues to the local circuits and challenges that turn on national facts and issues to the D.C. circuit. The lines remained murky. Justice Gorsuch pressed.
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Kent Covington
What simple rule would you have us apply here? In the related case, Oklahoma v. Epa, the fight is over the so called Good Neighbor rule, an EPA attempt to cut down on smog crossing state lines. Oklahoma calls it overreach. EPA says that smog is no respecter of boundaries. Border crossing is a national issue.
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Mary Reichert
Lawyer Misha Saitlin warned the agency is gaming the system.
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Nick Eicher
EPA essentially says that if it packages separate actions in a single Federal Register notice, subject to an ill defined sham exception, it can always get into the D.C. circuit.
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Mary Reichert
That tactic could cut states and local plaintiffs out of their home courts and stack the deck. It's a messy statute, and the Supreme Court has a chance to lay down a workable rule that everyone from state governments to small refineries hopes for.
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Kent Covington
All right, last case number three. This one is Riley v. Bondi. That's the new attorney general already in a named case at the high court. This one touches on tourist visas and deportation. And we'll turn on the definition of deadlines.
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Mary Reichert
Orlando. Riley overstayed his tourist visa back in the 1990s. Years later, after convictions for drugs and firearms, he landed in prison. During the pandemic, he received early release.
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Kent Covington
But waiting outside the prison gates were immigration agents to give him a ride home, his actual home in Jamaica. He was being deported. Riley said he feared for his safety if he was returned, but the Board of Immigration Appeals turned him down and signed a removal order.
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Mary Reichert
He tried appealing that, but now the question is whether he did so too late. The law gives him 30 days, but 30 days from when? A, 30 days from the date of the removal order, or B, 30 days from the time he received it? The government says A, Riley says B.
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Kent Covington
And now for two decisions handed down. Last week. The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 in favor of a Coast Guard reservist, saying that federal employees called to active duty during a national emergency are entitled to full differential pay, no strings attached. The decision could affect thousands of service members in civilian government jobs.
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Mary Reichert
And finally, in a 7 to 2 ruling, the Supreme Court sided with the government in a Medicare funding dispute. This one dealt with who counts as low income for the purpose of paying out bonus reimbursements. The court held that only hospital patients actually receiving Supplemental Security Income payments during their stay qualify. The decision narrows the pool of eligible hospitals and left the challengers without extra funds. And that's this week's legal docket.
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Paul Butler
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Paul Butler
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Mary Reichert
Coming up next on THE WORLD and everything in it, the Monday Money beat.
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Kent Covington
Time now to talk business, markets and the economy with financial analyst and advisor David Bonson. David heads up the wealth management firm, the Bonson Group. He is here now. David, good morning.
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Nick Eicher
Good morning, Nick. Good to be with you.
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Kent Covington
All right. Well, gross domestic product GDP shrank 3.10of a percent in the first three months of 2025, it's only slightly worse than expectations, but it does lead with a minus sign. Now, you have pointed out, David, that there's more happening under the hood than what the headline tells. So could you walk us through why a big jump in imports and investment pulled forward drove that number down and why Q1 may not paint the full picture of where the economy really stands?
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Nick Eicher
Well, there is all at once a concern in here and a little bit of a caveat for us truth tellers. That requires a bit more unpacking. First of all, I'll start with, you know, the conclusion of where I think we're headed. I am not saying what I'm about to say about Q1 GDP because I'm cheerleading the economy. I think we're in a very precarious position. I think it's extremely likely that we do dip into a recession. But I'm rather pessimistic about what the impact will be of what we've done so far in the trade war. And the general business uncertainty that has helped be created here over the last six weeks or so I think is very likely to end poorly. But the Q1 GDP report you're actually asking me about is a little bit different. Now, the headline of hey, we contracted 0.3% and the expectations were for expansion of 0.3. There's no question that that's problematic. And Nick, if we do have a GDP contraction and negative GDP in Q2, you know that'll be two quarters in a row. And we all remember what happened in 2022. I actually wrote an article4world about it back then where I suggested that yes, we did have two quarters that were technically negative in gdp, but that doesn't necessarily mean recession. And I ended up being vindicated in that. But this Q1 had a significant amount of imports that increased in the first quarter. And the formula for GDP does call for net exports. Okay, so therefore exports minus imports. But what happened here is because there was a bunch of people worried about tariffs coming this before the April 2 announcement. They were pre ordering a lot of things. So that added a spike to the number. The business investment number was actually very high, although a lot of that was also pre ordering of things that were concerned for that capital investment would be tariffed later on. So Q1 is just a mystery in the sense that there were various things that were done in advance. They were altered behavior, Nick, in advance of expectations. That's not exactly the normalized behavior. There's a kind of event driven factor here I'm interested in normalized behavior. What are businesses doing? What are consumers doing? What is the production level in the economy? What's the hiring? And on that front, the Q1 number wasn't really that bad, but I think the Q2 number will be. So how's that for a muddy answer? I don't have a good ending to report, but I don't think Q1 is a great argument for the difficult ending.
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Kent Covington
All right, David, three key employment data points from last week. ADP showed a rise of just 62,000 private payrolls in the month of April. We had weekly jobless claims ticking up. But the government number, the Bureau of Labor statistics, the BLS, logged a pretty solid 170, 77,000 jobs added. So how do you make sense of all this and what should we be looking for to discern trends?
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Nick Eicher
Well, you had a little bit of conflicting data, more or less. The ADP number and the weekly jobless claims number were weak. And the BLS number and the household survey were pretty good. Therefore, my best answer is, okay, let's look at it next week. Let's look at it next month. Because conflicting data makes it impossible to form a high conviction answer unless one is looking to find an answer just to coincide with their priors. You know you want to believe or you're predicting a bad jobs environment or a good jobs environment. So you cherry pick the reports that help confirm your biases. I don't want to do that. And yet the data is quite conflicted. Now, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is really kind of the main jobs figure, showed 177,000 jobs create in the month of April above expectations. But there were downward revisions in January and February of 58,000. The most interesting thing to me was that only 9,000 government jobs were shed. And everyone is saying, oh wow, that's really good. We thought it was going to be a lot worse and it doesn't appear to have been that bad. But see, I think there's also some that thought they were cutting a lot more than that at Doge. From a government spending standpoint, 9,000 jobs is not very many in the millions of government jobs that are out there. And so there's a number of things to look to there. But the ADP number and the BLS number, often they come out in the same week at the beginning of every month. The weekly jobless claims are obviously weekly. The ADP and BLS number is often telling a different story. So that's why it takes a few months to get a trend. The Weekly jobless claims will follow that. And I guess you and I will have to talk about it again next week.
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Kent Covington
All right, David, before we go, we did get the White House budget proposal for the new fiscal year. It came last week. It leaves in place the big pieces, Medicare, Social Security. But it's touting $163 billion in reductions for non defense spending. It trims NIH, climate programs, public broadcasting, and it boosts border security. So how do we distinguish genuine deficit reduction from mere window dressing? And what would you a real win in this budget debate?
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Nick Eicher
Well, none of it is a win or even could be a win just in the sense that it isn't legislation. The Trump budget isn't going to be the one that Congress passes. So a win, you know, for me to like a budget or not like a budget, it has to actually be the budget that becomes law. And this isn't going to be that. But it gives some indication or framework of what Congress wants to do based on having to coincide with the President's wishes. It's the majority party in the White House and the Congress. How do I say this delicately? It does exactly what he said. He promised he wasn't going to touch entitlements and he didn't touch entitlements. But if you're not going to touch entitlements, then you're not going to do anything about the deficit. So we are in a position where we're more or less handcuffed as fiscal conservatives because we are saying two things at once. One is that we believe we have to cut the deficit and pay attention to the national debt. And you can talk about NIH and you can talk about this program or that program and government efficiency, you can do fraud and waste. Do all of it all you want. And if you're on the left, you can even increase some taxes here and there. Either party talking about the budget and not talking about the long term numbers and plans and commitments in Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security is not serious about the debt. That's just the bottom line. So this budget reflects that non seriousness. Now in the short term political reality, we'll see how they ultimately reconcile because they're not going to get a bill passed if there isn't some window dressing of attentioning the deficit because there's at least a couple fiscal hawks in the House on the Republican side that won't vote for it if it doesn't. So they have to somehow get some tax cuts in there and then get some spending cuts to make it match to a budget. And if they told the budget, Nick, we're going to add to the deficit $5 trillion and then that was passed, then they could do 5 trillion of tax cuts, but they can't tell the budget they're going to add to the deficit 5 trillion because they won't get the votes. So they have to pass a budget that is scored as doing something reasonable for deficit, that satisfies fiscal hawks and then do tax cuts that match that. That's the challenge here, is making all this math work. I still am confident they're going to get a deal done. I don't really think they have much choice but how they're going to do it. My hope is in the end somebody will be honest to make the argument that you're not cutting Medicaid by cutting the growth of Medicaid, that Medicaid spending does not need to go up from current levels another $800 billion, that we could just simply limit the growth of Medicaid and you're not cutting Medicaid and then have a lot of budget availability there for some of the other things they want to do. That's where I'm hoping we go. And then at some point in the future, we're going to need some grownups in the room to deal with Social Security and Medicare long term.
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Kent Covington
All right. David Bonson, founder, managing partner and chief investment officer at the Bonson Group. David writes at World opinions and@dividendcafe.com David, thank you. We'll see you next week.
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Nick Eicher
See you next week. Nick, thanks so much.
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Kent Covington
Today is Monday, May 5th. Good morning. This is the World and everything in it from Listener supported World Radio. I'm Nick Iger.
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Mary Reichert
And I'm Mary Reichert. Up next, the world history book. This week marks the 80th anniversary of the Allies defeat of Hitler in World War II. Enthusiasm for the occasion was subdued as the war with Japan continued.
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Kent Covington
World's Paul Butler has been combing through radio broadcasts from the time and found some highlights to share.
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Oksana Markarova
On May 1, 1945, radio services around the world interrupt their regular programming with news from Berlin.
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David Bonson
Here is a news flash. The German radio has just announced that Hitler is dead. This afternoon, Grand Admiral Donuts announced the death of Adolf Hitler. The announcement came in an official communique.
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Paul Butler
Read over Radio Hamburg and stated that.
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David Bonson
Hitler had personally selected Grand Admiral Donuts as his successor. The admiral then came on the radio, reported how sad he and the nation were and said he was taking over.
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Paul Butler
According to the fair's wishes.
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Oksana Markarova
On its own, Hitler's Death doesn't guarantee an end of the war, but the writing is on the wall. And just one week later, the national.
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David Bonson
Broadcasting company delays the start of all its programs to bring you a special bulletin. It was announced in san francisco half an hour ago by a high american official not identified as saying that Germany has surrendered unconditionally to the allies, no strings attached.
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Oksana Markarova
Germany agrees to unconditional surrender. Grand admiral karl donitz addresses the german people by radio. He assures the german people that he's honoring hitler's wishes and saving as many lives as he can by ordering the german high command to sign the surrender agreement.
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David Bonson
Good morning from the white house in washington. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states.
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Oksana Markarova
That same day, U.S. president Harry S. Truman addresses the American people and U. S. Allies.
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David Bonson
This is a solemn but a glorious hour. The flags of freedom fly all over europe. For this victory, we join in, offering our thanks to the providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity. Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil ban.
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Oksana Markarova
That high price is not just munitions and equipment, but human lives. 250,000Americans died in Europe, more than 600,000 injured.
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David Bonson
Let us not forget, my fellow americans, the sorrow and the heartache which today abide in the homes of so many of our neighbors. Neighbors whose most priceless possession has been rendered as a sacrifice to redeem our liberty. We can repay the debt which we owe to our God, to our dead and to our children only by work, by ceaseless devotion to the responsibilities which lie ahead of us.
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Oksana Markarova
President truman ends his address with this proclamation.
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David Bonson
It is fitting that we as a nation give thanks to almighty God who has strengthened us and given us the victory. Now, therefore, I, Harry s. Truman, president of the united states of america, do hereby appoint Sunday, May 13, 1945, to be a day of prayer. I call upon the people of the United States, whatever their faith, to unite in offering joyful thanks to God for the victory we have won and to pray that he will support us to the end of our present struggle and guide us into the ways of peace.
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Oksana Markarova
In London, winston churchill reminds the british nation that there's still much to do.
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David Bonson
We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing, but let us not forget for a moment the toils and efforts that lie ahead. We must now devote all our strength and resources to the completion of our task both at home and abroad.
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Oksana Markarova
King george vi echoes truman's call. Speaking of the obligations to honor the fallen and to commit themselves to God in the days ahead, in the hour.
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David Bonson
Of danger, we humbly committed our cause into the hand of God, and he has been our strength and shield. Let us thank him for his mercies and in this hour of victory, commit ourselves and our new task to the guidance of that same strong.
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Oksana Markarova
As reconstruction begins in Europe, Allied attention shifts to bringing an end to the war in the Pacific theater. And in just over three months, they succeed. Japan surrenders on August 15, 1945, unconditionally bringing an end to the war that defined a generation. That's this week's world history book. I'm Paul Butler.
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Kent Covington
Tomorrow, the contentious hearing in the Senate over a bill to combat anti Semitism on campus and protecting conscience rights for doctors and medical professionals will meet a man on the front lines. That and more tomorrow. I'm Nick Eicher.
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Mary Reichert
And I'm Mary Reichard. The world and everything in it comes to you from World Radio. World's mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates and inspires. The Bible says, do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God. Verses 9 through 11 of First Corinthians, chapter 6. Go now in grace and peace.