It's Friday, August 29th.
I'm Josie Duffy Rice, in for Jane Koston, and this is What A Day,
the show listening to the new John Baptiste song, Petrichor,
which he described as a climate change warning set to a dance beat.
Appropriate, given that it is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
On today's show, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a major staffing shakeup,
and the Air Force offers military funeral honors for a January 6th rioter.
four and a half years after she was killed by an officer at the insurrection.
But let's start with cash bail.
This week, Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending cash bail in Washington,
D.C. and other jurisdictions around the country.
The order instructs his administration to withhold federal funds from the district unless they change their bail policy,
which eliminates cash bail in most cases and has been in effect for over 30 years.
He also ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to provide a list of states and localities that have ended cash bail for certain crimes and instructed agencies to identify the federal grants and contracts and funds that could be withheld from those jurisdictions unless they bring back cash bail.
Here's what Trump, as well-spoken as ever, had to say about the executive order.
One of the executive orders has to do with cashless bail.
That was when the big crime in this country started.
And I can tell you who did it, when,
but I don't want to do that because others followed pretty quickly.
But that was when it happened.