NPR News Now - NPR News: 06-06-2025 2PM EDT

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

NPR News: 06-06-2025 2PM EDTLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Former White House strategist Steve Bannon is weighing in on the fallout between President Trump and Elon Musk. Bannon accused the tech billionaire of betraying Trump by obliterating the massive tax cut and spending package backed by the White House. He crossed the Rubicon. You can't listen. It's one thing to make comments about the spending on the bill. spending package backed by the White House. He crossed the Rubicon. You can't listen.

It's one thing to make comments about the spending on the bill. There's another thing about what he did. OK, you can't sit there and first try to destroy the bill. You can't come out and say kill the president's most important legislative occurrence of this first term. Bannon is calling for the deportation of Musk and the seizure of his first turn. Bannon is calling for the deportation of Musk and the seizure of his company SpaceX.

He also suggested invoking the Defense Production Act to take control of SpaceX, citing national security concerns. The Department of Homeland Security is requesting 20,000 National Guard troops to assist with immigration enforcement. NPR's Jimena Bustillo reports this would be a new way to use service members. A memo obtained by NPR shows a detailed request from DHS to the Defense Department for thousands of troops.

Their tasks range from file management to logging to guard duty and detention centers. The request has not been approved yet by the Pentagon, but the move would be the first time that the National Guard is used for interior immigration enforcement at a national scale. Individual states have previously sent their own guard to help with border security, and Texas gave its National Guard the authority to make immigration arrests. Multiple U.S. officials tell NPR that the Pentagon is still working with state governors to determine which states will provide troops, though they are expected to come mostly from Republican-led states. Hima Nibustio, NPR News, Washington. For the second year, Muslims in Gaza will not be able to celebrate one of Islam's most important

holidays. Devastated by Israeli bombardments and with only a trickle of aid allowed into the territory, Palestinians have no access to fresh food and meat and mainstay of Eid celebrations. NPR's Keri Kahn reports from Tel Aviv. If Palestinians are able to find meat or livestock to slaughter for the Festival of Sacrifice, the prices are astronomical. Israel's nearly three-month-long blockade of all goods into Gaza depleted food stocks. There's been a limited lifting of the ban, but only a trickle of trucks have

been allowed into Gaza since, bringing in mainly flour. The UN, which is warning of widespread famine in Gaza, says it struggles to deliver aid due to looting and shifting Israeli military restrictions. Israel says it must impose strict controls to make sure Hamas doesn't steal aid. Keri Kahn, NPR News, Tel Aviv. Stocks are trading higher on Wall Street at this hour. The Dow is up 426 points. This is NPR News in Washington. A group of Democratic Attorneys General are appearing in federal court in Boston today.

They're challenging President Trump's executive order on voting. The White House is seeking changes, including proof of citizenship, to vote in federal elections. Trump also wants to force states to stop counting mail-in ballots that are postmarked by the election but arrive after election day is over. The Attorneys General say that Trump's order violates federal law. Archaeologists have discovered what is likely the largest intact remains of an ancient agricultural site in the eastern half of what is now the United States. As NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports, it's in the upper

peninsula of Michigan. Researchers used a drone to survey over 300 acres near the Menominee River. The drone was equipped with a laser that could map the shape of the ground. Madeline McLeaster is an archaeologist with Dartmouth College. She says the drone detected row upon row of raised gardening beds. I mean, I didn't expect them just to keep calling and calling and calling. This surprisingly large agricultural system was built by the ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. In the journal Science, the researchers say the discovery suggests that large-scale agriculture may have been common in the region before Europeans

moved in. Nell Greenfield, Boyce, NPR News. Stocks continue to trade higher on Wall Street at the Sauer, the Dow up 426 points, the Nasdaq up 234. This is NPR News.