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Congress is back from its summer recess with a lot on its agenda. What's all in store for lawmakers and what does their work mean for you? Every weekday, the NPR Politics podcast unpacks Washington's inner workings. Listen to the NPR Politics podcast on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Department of Homeland Security says, it is now checked the citizenship status of more than 33 million registered voters through an upgraded verification tool. NPR's Jude Jaffe Block reports election officials have used

the citizenship check, even though questions persist about the security and the accuracy of the system known as SAVE. Save is a federal data system that has long been used to verify immigration status. In recent months, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services rapidly made several changes, including linking SAVE to Social Security Administration data. Now the agency says SAVE can verify the citizenship of most U.S.-born citizens, too. Some Republican-led states are running their voter rolls through SAVE, amounting to almost a sixth of all registered voters so far. But some election officials from both parties are hesitating or refusing to use the tool, citing outstanding questions, including how the federal government can use the voter data that states upload.

Jude Jaffe Block and PR News. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is in a standoff with President Trump, who has repeatedly signaled he might send National Guard troops to Chicago. On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced it had launched an immigration enforcement operation, part of the administration's campaign targeting jurisdictions it believes are shielding unauthorized migrants in violation of federal immigration law. Governor Pritzker reacted to the influx of immigration and customs enforcement agents in Chicago. They're arresting people outside of courthouses, people who are going there, in fact, to seek legal status if they don't have it already, or to advance their legal status, or they're here permanently, but they like to become a U.S. citizen. They're literally stopping people who are trying to follow the legal system to do the right thing.

Governor Pritzker speaking with NPR's Morning Edition. A new study finds that people in the United States consume more sugar as the temperature. rises. NPR's Alejandra Burunda explains. The study tracked Americans' grocery purchases over a few years and compared those to temperature. When it got hotter, people bought a lot more sugary drinks, like sodas, energy drinks, gatorade, and juices. On average, people added about an eighth of a teaspoon of sugar per degree Celsius hotter. That sounds like a small number, but it adds up, according to Duo Chan. He's a climate scientist at the University of Southampton and an author of the study. If you just like really do the calculation at the national and annual level, you will get a

quite astonishing number. If climate change heats Earth up another three degrees Celsius by the end of the century, some Americans could add over a pound of sugar to their diets each year. Alhanja Borunda, NPR News. The Dow Jones Industrial Average down nearly 200 points at last check. You're listening to NPR News. Along party lines, the Senate committee's advance Stephen Myron's domination to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. The White House Economic Advisers widely expected to be approved by the full Senate. The Labor Department says the producer price index unexpectedly fell last month, one-tenth of one percent. The Fed is widely seen on course to approving interest rate cuts when policymakers meet next week.

20 new dance projects from across the country will receive grants of up to $100,000. But NPR's Elizabeth Blair tells us this nearly 30-year-old grant program is coming to an end. A national dance project grant covers a range of costs, including fees to artists and presenters, operating support, and touring. The Jamal Jackson Dance Company in New York, Joti Singh in California, and Rosie Simas Dance in Minnesota are among this year's recipients. The Mellon Foundation has been a lead funder of the National Dance Project, but has decided not to renew support next year. The New England Foundation for the Arts, which administers the grant, says there will be one more opportunity under the National Dance Project, but it will be different specifics to be announced later this year.

The Doris Duke Foundation plans to continue its support of the program. Doris Duke is also a financial supporter of NPRs. Elizabeth Blair, NPR News. Elon Musk has been dethrone as the world's richest man depending on who does the ranking. Bloomberg says Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is now the wealthiest, the 81-year-old's worth $393 billion. But Forbes still ranks Musk as the richest. It's NPR News.