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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The White House is out with its first budget proposal of President Trump's second term. It's an incomplete budget outline known as a skinny budget.
But as NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben reports, it nevertheless shows that Trump wants to make further drastic changes to government. The White House budget proposal includes sharp cuts to an array of agencies like the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Internal Revenue Service. The proposal would match those non-defense cuts with increases to defense spending.
All told, the White House proposes increasing defense spending by 13 percent, as well as a 65 percent increase in spending on homeland security. That money would go in part towards mass deportations, as well as completing the border wall. The president's budget is only a proposal. Congress passes spending bills. However, Trump has shown he's willing to act unilaterally via executive orders at his Department of Government efficiency. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.
TikTok has been hit by a fine of $600 million for transferring the private data of European users to China. Terry Schultz reports the penalty is the result of a four-year investigation by European Union regulators. Ireland's Data Protection Commission led the probe on behalf of the EU into whether TikTok was in compliance with the bloc's privacy rules.
They found the video sharing app was transferring personal data to servers located in China, contrary to what the company initially claimed.
EU officials are concerned this information can be accessed by staff in China, where TikTok's parent company ByteDance is based, and by the Chinese government, violating strict privacy rules. The regulators also said TikTok had not been transparent with users about this and ordered the company to come into compliance within six months. TikTok says it will appeal. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
President Trump signed an executive order yesterday telling the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private entity created and funded by Congress, to end federal funding for NPR and PBS, quote, to the maximum extent allowed by law. Trump has accused the organizations of left-wing bias. The order also calls for ending indirect funding to NPR and PBS and prohibits local public radio and TV stations from using taxpayer dollars to support the news organizations.
MPR's David Falkenflik has more. It's not clear he has the power to do this. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has filed a suit in court that's supposed to move forward next week. It's being heard on an expedited basis by a federal judge in Washington. And we're going to see. It appears right now that the CPBS is simply ignoring the president's edict, saying he doesn't have the authority to do this. MPR's David Falkenflik reporting.
Wall Street sharply higher by the closing bell. The Dow up 564 points, the Nasdaq up 266. You're listening to NPR News.
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