Republican Healthcare Vote, Susie Wiles Interview, Nuclear Reactor Regulations
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
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Congress has two days to take action on health care subsidies, before lawmakers head home for the holiday recess. Vanity Fair has published a story featuring rare interviews conducted over more than a year with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. And, the Trump administration is fast-tracking construction of new nuclear reactor designs.
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| 0:00.0 | With two days left in their session, House Republicans prepared to vote on a health care plan. |
| 0:06.8 | The roots of Obamacare, they've gotten so deep that it's no longer possible to just pull it out at the route and start over. |
| 0:12.2 | So what is Speaker Mike Johnson planning? |
| 0:14.2 | I'm Steve Inskeep with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:18.7 | The president's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the White |
| 0:25.6 | House in a vanity fair story. What did she say about the administration and the people in it? |
| 0:31.0 | And the Trump administration is fast-tracking new nuclear reactor designs. Some safety advocates |
| 0:36.4 | are worried about the government's approach to |
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