Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
The White House is confirming that the administration has been cancelling the social security numbers of immigrants,
turning up the pressure on them to self-deport.
NPR's Ashley Lopez reports this includes migrants who were granted temporary legal status by the Biden administration.
The White House says the Social Security Administration has identified immigrants who,
it says, are ineligible for benefits.
So the agency has moved their social security numbers into a master file titled ineligible or death.
White House spokesperson Liz Huston told NPR in a statement that, quote, President Trump promised mass deportations,
and by removing the monetary incentive for illegal aliens to come and stay,
we will encourage them to self-deport, end quote.
The advocacy group Social Security Works put out a statement calling this an outrageous abuse of power,
saying these individuals are now at risk of losing their income, health insurance,
access to their bank account, credit cards, homes, and more.
Ashley Lopez, NPR News.
The Environmental Protection Agency may stop collecting data on greenhouse gas emissions.
That means thousands of oil refineries, power plants,
and coal mines would no longer collect and report emissions to the government.
Sharon Lerner is an investigative reporter at ProPublica.
She explains what this could mean for cutting climate emissions.
Right now, this program at the EPA collects data from 8,000, roughly 8,000 facilities.