Segments From This Episode

• Trump orders the creation of a sovereign wealth fund

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  In an executive order, President Donald Trump has crafted a plan for what’s called a sovereign wealth fund. Among other things, he said that the fund could buy TikTok.

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• How Congress — and not the president — controls how taxpayer money is spent

  by Samantha Fields

  

  According to both the Constitution and the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, the president does not have the authority to spend or hold back funding Congress has appropriated.

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• Housing could lose nearly $1.5 trillion in value due to climate change

  by Henry Epp

  

  A new report by the First Street Foundation finds rising insurance costs and homeowners factoring in climate risk into purchase decisions could lower property values.

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