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  • Since Donald Trump took office in January, a lot has happened.

  • The White House budget office ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans.

  • The impact of the Trump administration's tariffs is already being felt in President Trump's efforts to radically remake the federal government.

  • The NPR Politics Podcast covers it all.

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  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

  • A federal judge in Washington now says he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt.

  • The ruling today in connection with the violation of his orders last month,

  • the planes carrying Venezuelan deportees to a prison in El Salvador turn around.

  • In Fierce Adrian in Florida, says U.S. District Judge James Bosborg is warning of potential prosecutions,

  • though whether today's order changes it is unclear.

  • Well,

  • members of the Trump administration have said they're not going to let courts get in their way of carrying out the president's priorities,

  • and today is the first time a judge has clearly said they will be punished for not obeying courts.

  • If they still refuse,

  • that is where legal experts say

  • that we will have a full-blown constitutional crisis where the balance of powers between the executive and judicial branches may not hold.

  • Trump administration meanwhile said today it will appeal.

  • Police in Pennsylvania say the man who allegedly set fire to the state governor's home may have been politically motivated.