Trump Pushes Hamas Disarmament, Ukraine Peace Talks, A Year Of DOGE

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President Trump doubles down on demanding Hamas disarm after meeting with Israel’s prime minister, and warned Iran not to rebuild its nuclear program.<br> Ukraine’s president presses the White House for decades-long U.S. security guarantees as part of a proposed peace deal with Russia.<br> And a year after DOGE’s push to shrink government, agencies are smaller, spending is higher, and millions of Americans’ data remains in play.<br/><br/><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.<br></em><p class="readrate">Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Ruth Sherlock, Anna Yukhananov, Mohamad ElBardicy, and Alice Woelfle.<p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas.<p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">We get engineering support from Stacey Abbott. And our technical director is Carleigh Strange.<p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">Our Supervising Senior Producer is Vince Pearson.<p class="readrate">(0:00) Introduction<br>(03:13) Trump Pushes Hamas Disarmament <br>(07:25) Ukraine Peace Talks <br>(10:45) A Year Of DOGE <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>