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  • Happy New Year!

  • Want to set goals that you'll actually stick to in 2026?

  • You want to accept yourself in the situation you're in,

  • but you also want to expect more from yourself and say, what are the ways that I can grow?

  • This week, how to design and plan your year on the LifeKit podcast.

  • Listen in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.

  • Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has placed the state's National Guard on standby.

  • The move follows growing unrest over the presence of federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.

  • ICE is now the highest-funded U.S.

  • law enforcement agency.

  • But as NPR's Bill Chapel reports,

  • there are questions about how the Department of Homeland Security is using that money.

  • Last summer, President Trump's spending and policy package,

  • what he dubbed his big beautiful bill, gave ICE an extra $75 billion.

  • It's larger than the annual budget of all.

  • other federal law enforcement agencies combined.

  • That's Lauren Brooke Eisen, the senior director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center.

  • She says billions of dollars are going to detaining people,

  • but far less goes to ensure oversight and due process.