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Live from NPR in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. A day after the Senate [参议院] passed a resolution [决议] aimed at limiting President Trump's military action against Iran, the Pentagon [五角大楼] is asking Congress for another $80 billion to pay for operations [（军事）行动] in the region. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is lobbying [游说] senators to provide $80 billion, mostly to pay for months of war and the thousands of cruise missiles [巡航导弹], drones [无人机] and interceptors [拦截器] expanded after the U.S. and Israel launched a war against Iran. This comes as the White House is asking for a record $1.5 trillion for this year's regular defense appropriation [军事预算拨款]. While defense hawks on Capitol Hill [国会山] agree that the U.S. must urgently replenish [补充] its global stockpile [库存] of munitions [弹药], the Iran war and the current ceasefire [停火] agreement are not popular. And senators from both parties may balk at [抵制] such staggering [惊人的] expenses when the American voting public still feels the pinch [痛苦] of higher prices at the gas pump and the grocery store.
President Trump held a tense [气氛紧张的] meeting with Senate Republicans today after he abruptly [匆忙的] canceled the signing ceremony [签字仪式] for a bipartisan [两党支持的] housing bill [关于住房的议案]. I think we had a really great meeting and we're very proud of the party. We like our leader. We like everybody really in the room. I don't like a few people, but that's OK. I think you know who they are. Republicans had touted [炫耀] the bill as a major election year achievement, but Trump said he won't sign it unless Congress passes his stalled [陷入僵局的] election security bill [投票安全法案], which he calls the Save America Act. A federal judge has permanently [永久的] barred [禁止] the Trump administration from implementing [实施] most of his first executive order on elections. His order would have required people to show proof of citizenship [公民证明] to register to vote [注册投票] and prevented mail-in ballots [邮寄选票] from counting if they were received after election day. District Court Judge Denise Casper agreed with arguments from Democratic Attorneys General [民主党籍的检察长] who filed the lawsuit [提告] that the Constitution [宪法] gives states and Congress, not the president, the power to regulate elections.
Republicans and Democrats in Utah chose nominees for congressional races yesterday. NPR's Sage Miller reports that includes candidates [候选人] for a new Democratic-leaning [倾向民主党的] congressional district [选区]. For the first time in modern history, Utah has a safe Democratic-leaning congressional district. Voters in Salt Lake City and surrounding suburbs [邻近的郊区] overwhelmingly [一致的] decided to send former Congressman Ben McAdams back to Washington. McAdams is considered a moderate [政策温和的（非激进的）] Democrat. He beat out two other progressive [进步派] candidates in the race. While he will face a general election in November, the makeup [构成] of the district all but ensures a McAdams win. On the Republican side, all three congressional incumbents [在任者] will keep their jobs. Both Congresswoman Celeste Malloy and Congressman Blake Moore pulled victories [胜利] against candidates to their right.
Stocks [股市] closed mixed on Wall Street today as losses for several tech giants weighed down the market. The S&P 500 fell a fraction [小幅度], even though more stocks rose than fell within the index.
Thousands of African immigrants [移民] are leaving South Africa because of a rise in anti-migration anger. Attacks have coincided [重合] with protests [示威] by anti-immigration groups. Those groups have set a June 30th deadline for people in the country illegally to leave and the government to take action, threatening a national shutdown.
New projections [估计] from the U.S. Postal Service show the self-funded mailing agency won't run out of cash [现金] until at least 2031. NPR's Hansi Lo Wong reports it comes after the Postal Service stopped contributing to workers' retirement plans [退休金]. With people sending a lot less mail compared to decades ago. Postmaster General [总邮政长] David Steiner told Congress back in March that the U.S. Postal Service may have to stop deliveries next year because of a cash crisis [危机]. But Steiner now says that has been delayed until sometime between 2031 and 2034. What we are doing right now is we're basically borrowing money from our retirement plans to fund [资助] current operations. I'm not particularly comfortable with that. None of us should be comfortable with that. USPS [美国邮政] is a financial supporter of NPR. Back in 1970, Congress passed a law that set up the mailing agency to be self-funded through selling stamps [邮票] and service fees, not tax dollars. Steiner is calling for Congress to consider changing a legal requirement for the Postal Service to deliver mail at least six days a week to just about every address in the country.
The International Olympic Committee [奥林匹克协会] will pay more than $100 million to athletes [运动员]. Athletes can now apply for $10,000 grants [补助] and the money's not tied [绑定] to how they did at the Games. This comes after growing calls [增长的呼声] to pay Olympic athletes. Nearly 2,900 people competed at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games.
