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President Trump's proposed budget for the next fiscal year includes deep cuts for scientific research. NPR's Jeff Brumfield has more on what that could mean for the economy. Trump's budget would slash the National Science Foundation by 50 percent and the National Institutes of Health by 40 percent. Other agencies like NASA would see similar drops in their research funding. Sudip Parikh is CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. What I see is proposals that would be catastrophic if they were implemented.
Basic research fuels economic growth. One recent analysis found that cuts of this magnitude could lead to an 8% drop in GDP in coming years. This budget proposal signals the direction President Trump wants to go, but it's Congress that decides how taxpayer dollars are spent. Jeff Brumfield, NPR News, Washington. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has released a video that responds to what he says is an arrest threat from White House border official Tom Homan.
Evers says he did nothing wrong when advising state employees about job site visits from immigration authorities. Chuck Kornbach of member station WUWM has our reports. Evers, a Democrat, recently issued guidance to Wisconsin state employees to contact an attorney if immigration officers show up at a state building with legal documents and to not turn over any items on their own.
Borders are Tom Homan told reporters Thursday that the governor should, quote, wait to see what's coming. Evers says he's interpreting that as a threat of arrest. Joint threats like this should be of concern to every Wisconsinite and every American who cares about this country and the values of
hold here. The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Last week, federal authorities arrested a Milwaukee judge and charged her with impeding immigration enforcement.
For NPR News, I'm Chuck Quirmbach in Milwaukee. Two women were shot Friday afternoon on the Southern California campus of Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology. A suspect, who was likely a former employee, is now in custody, and police are calling the shooting an instance of workplace violence.
William Jones is a student who was near the college when the shooting took place. I mean, really, we just know that they shot, somebody got shot, multiple people got injured. And I know that they barricaded them for a while, and that's really all we knew. And, you know, we were just kind of stuck trying to leave. And then the police were like, yo, you can't leave. You got to stay here. So it's just, it's kind of like, it's been safe. One of the shooting victims is listed in critical condition.
A 38-year-old woman was killed Saturday in Greece when a bomb she was carrying exploded. Police say the woman apparently intended to place the bomb in a nearby bank. They say the woman was known to authorities for being involved in past robberies. Several storefronts and vehicles were damaged in the blast. Stocks finished higher on Wall Street to end the week Friday. You're listening to NPR News.
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