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Republican Healthcare Vote, Susie Wiles Interview, Nuclear Reactor Regulations

Republican Healthcare Vote, Susie Wiles Interview, Nuclear Reactor Regulations

Up First from NPR
Dec 17, 2025 13 min
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<p dir="ltr">Congress has two days to take action on health care subsidies, before lawmakers head home for the holiday recess. Vanity Fair has published a story featuring rare interviews conducted over more than a year with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. And, the Trump administration is fast-tracking construction of new nuclear reactor designs. <p dir="ltr"><em>Want more analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? <a href="https://www.npr.org/newsletter/news"target="_blank" >Subscribe</a> to the Up First newsletter.</em><p dir="ltr">Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Kelsey Snell, Rebekah Metzler, Brett Neely, Lisa Thomson and Alice Woefle.<p dir="ltr">It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas.<p dir="ltr">We get engineering support from Stacey Abbott. Our technical director is Carleigh Strange. And our Supervising Editor is Jan Johnson.<br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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