Politics and views in the United States.

President Trump remembers fallen soldiers, touts his achievements. Israeli nationalists show disdain for Arabs in the streets, but a possible Gaza ceasefire may be on the table. Pro-democracy advocates call for civility, tolerance in politics.

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Welcome to 2025 Talks, where we're following our democracy in historic times.

Their valor gave us the freest, greatest, and most noble republic ever to exist on the face of the earth.

A republic that I am fixing after a long and hard four years.

After paying his respects to service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery, President Donald Trump criticized the previous administration.

On social media, Trump had scathing words for former President Joe Biden and federal judges who've blocked many of his strict anti-immigration policies according to research from the conservative Cato Institute.

More than a fifth of the migrants so far sent to a high security El Salvador prison actually entered the U.S. legally.

In another post, Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin had gone absolutely crazy after a weekend of relentless attacks on Ukrainian residential areas.

Trump has so far not endorsed a European plan to increase sanctions on what marked a holiday in Jerusalem neighborhoods chanting Israel's right wing cabinet but others have criticized said they have agreed to ceasefire for hostages de Israel has not signed on from most of southern Gaza.

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One cut funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by more than two t Progress Arizona says the agency has already returned more than $20 billion to working families.

People are working harder than ever before, are seeing rising costs, and instead of giving any kind of support, this Congress is trying to aid the Trump administration's assault on the CFPB, which has returned $21 billion to defrauded consumers in the form of restitution or canceled debts.

Congress has voted to overturn a CFPB rule strictly limiting how much banks and credit card companies can profit from overdraft fees.

Pro-democracy groups want to tone down America's heated political rhetoric.

Some analysts doubt how far their efforts can go, but Emily Chamley-Wright of the Institute for Humane Studies says as bad as things might feel right now, it doesn't mean America's falling apart.

She says people have repeatedly come to see the value in our institutions.

We have this resilience baked in, but that doesn't mean that we can sit back and just wait for it either.

I'm Alex Gonzalez for Pacific Network and Public News Service.

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