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U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen held a face-to-face meeting with Kimo Abrego Garcia.
He's the man illegally deported to a mega prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.
NPR's Rylan Barton reports the Maryland Democratic Senator was initially turned away by Salvadoran officials.
In an interview yesterday on All Things Considered,
Van Hollen said soldiers had initially prevented him from reaching the prison.
They simply said they had been given orders not to allow me to visit him.
Later in the day, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele,
posted on X that Van Hollen had met with Abrego Garcia and said that he,
quote, gets the honor of staying in El Salvador's custody.
The senator then posted a picture of himself and Abrego Garcia sitting at a table.
Also yesterday,
a federal appeals court declined the Trump administration's request to lift a judge's order that they help bring Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. Rylan Barton,
NPR News.
President Trump has been bashing Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell.
Trump wants Powell and the Fed to lower interest rates.
Powell says the policymakers want to see more data from the president's on-again, off-again global tariffs.
NPR's Scott Horsley says Trump disagrees.
Trump complains that over in Europe, the central bank has been cutting interest rates,
but here in this country, the Fed has been sitting on its hands, keeping rates relatively high.