you The end of an era as the U.S.
and Russia's final nuclear weapons pact expires.
Plus,
a democratic push to curb ISIS powers and fund DHS meets stiff Republican opposition in Congress and why Washington's best efforts are failing to stop the decline of American manufacturing.
Something like 200,000 manufacturing jobs have disappeared across the country since 2023.
And since President Trump unveiled his so-called liberation day tariffs last April,
there have been eight straight months of job declines in the manufacturing sector.
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The last treaty controlling nuclear weapons between the US and Russia has expired,
raising fears of a new arms race.
This is a very significant milestone.
Since the early 1970s,
there has been one sort of strategic arms treaty or another which has constrained the Russian and American long-range nuclear arsenals.
That's journal national security correspondent Michael Gordon.
He says that the new strategic arms reduction treaty or new start ended overnight
because the Trump administration never responded to Russia's proposal to replace it.
The agreement can't legally be extended again,
but the issue on the table is a Russian proposal to informally observe the ceilings in the treaty on warheads and missiles and bombers.