STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Will President Biden actually negotiate with Republicans over paying the nation’s payments?

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The president meets immediately with congressional leaders, and that features Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Home Republicans have but to agree to increase federal borrowing authority. Biden has mentioned he will not negotiate over paying the payments that Congress has handed within the first place. However the analyst Julian Zelizer of Princeton instructed us the opposite day that his choices are restricted.

JULIAN ZELIZER: The issue is that if Republicans are keen to undergo with this, which means there is a potential for a default until the president takes extraordinary measures, like utilizing the 14th Modification to pay for the federal government’s payments. If he is not keen to do this, he would not have as a lot leverage, I feel, as some Democrats hope.

INSKEEP: NPR’s Claudia Grisales is protecting the story. Claudia, good morning.

CLAUDIA GRISALES, BYLINE: Good morning, Steve.

INSKEEP: Who all’s attending this assembly?

GRISALES: So Biden and McCarthy will be a part of Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell and Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries for this 4 p.m. Jap assembly. And it may be the primary dialog for this group – the primary joint dialog – since this battle over the debt restrict acquired underway. It is also the primary since Home Republicans handed a invoice that they dubbed the Restrict, Save, Develop Act, which might elevate the debt ceiling by 1.5 trillion or till March of subsequent 12 months, whichever occurs first. And that laws contains important cuts in authorities spending over the subsequent a number of years. It claws again Biden initiatives and unspent funds from payments such because the pandemic aid support.

And for example how far aside these two sides are, Democrats have dubbed this invoice the Default on America Act, calling it a ransom word to the American folks. So going into this, we aren’t anticipating a significant breakthrough immediately on a everlasting deal.

INSKEEP: OK. Default on America – DOA. Form of onerous to overlook the joke there.

GRISALES: Precisely. Precisely.

INSKEEP: However they’re within the room. They’re going through one another. They’re speaking. What challenges would they face in reaching some lodging?

GRISALES: So Home Republicans, of their debt restrict invoice, that marked certainly one of their largest assessments but for McCarthy as speaker. It cleared the chamber by a vote of 217-215 – so a reminder of the tight margins there, even on a partisan want checklist invoice. So their opening bid right here in these talks marks leverage for Republicans to begin these conversations. They solely management one chamber on this divided authorities situation. And whereas Biden has mentioned the debt restrict isn’t negotiable, he must see what spending cuts or different concessions his celebration could have an urge for food for. However each face main political penalties right here, with Biden and McCarthy in every of their roles for the primary time and Biden operating for reelection for the presidency.

INSKEEP: Yeah, Biden operating for reelection and McCarthy making an attempt to maintain his job with a fractious caucus that is simply barely behind him.

GRISALES: Proper.

INSKEEP: How does this examine to the final time this turned a disaster, which was 2011?

GRISALES: Two figures from immediately’s assembly – Biden is then vice chairman and McConnell within the Senate on the time – helped dealer a deal as they labored with different negotiators. However they got here inside days of the breach, and the U.S. credit standing was downgraded for the primary time. However this time, it is a way more partisan situation. McConnell and different key Senate Republicans say they’re behind McCarthy on this and say Biden wants to barter. And McCarthy is a a lot much less acquainted opponent for negotiations for Biden on this.

INSKEEP: Yeah, I suppose we should always word Biden, after all, was vice chairman in 2011, however successfully president…

GRISALES: Proper.

INSKEEP: …Of the Senate and had been a long-time senator.

GRISALES: Yeah.

INSKEEP: So – certainly one of them. Claudia, thanks a lot.

GRISALES: Thanks a lot.

INSKEEP: NPR’s Claudia Grisales.

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INSKEEP: All proper. Russia held its Victory Day celebrations. Troopers in gown uniforms marched with arms swinging throughout Crimson Sq. exterior the Kremlin.

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MARTÍNEZ: That is an annual occasion marking the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World Battle II, however it’s onerous to observe with out fascinated about the opposite warfare. That is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a single day, Russia performed airstrikes on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and different targets. Ukrainian officers say they intercepted almost all of the Russian missiles.

INSKEEP: NPR’s Russia correspondent Charles Maynes has been watching the ceremonies in Moscow. Hey there, Charles.

CHARLES MAYNES, BYLINE: Good morning.

INSKEEP: So what stood out for you so far as what was there or what was not there on Crimson Sq. immediately?

MAYNES: Effectively, , the ceremony on Crimson Sq. deliberately echoes the grand Soviet navy parades of the previous, but this 12 months’s occasion appears considerably muted, I might say. There have been only a few worldwide leaders in attendance. There have been fewer troops, fewer tanks and missiles on show than, say, final 12 months, maybe due to the questionable optics of utilizing the most effective of what Russia has in a televised parade whereas precise fight is occurring in Ukraine. Now, as he did final 12 months, Putin drew direct parallels between the Soviet victory in 1945 and Russian forces battling what he known as a cult of Nazism immediately. In actual fact, there have been troopers and navy households from the present navy marketing campaign within the viewers, and Putin addressed them immediately.

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PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN: (Talking Russian).

MAYNES: So right here, Putin tells them there’s nothing extra essential than their fight responsibility immediately and that they are preventing for the way forward for the Russian folks within the nation. Now, it is value stating that even earlier than the warfare in Ukraine, some Russians had been extremely uncomfortable with the best way Putin has politicized this vacation basically. However amid the preventing in Ukraine, there’s actual concern that these comparisons with World Battle II undermine reputable delight within the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany – a warfare effort, I remind you, that took greater than 20 million lives.

INSKEEP: Yeah. What was safety like, provided that Russia says there have been drone assaults on the Kremlin the opposite day?

MAYNES: Effectively, it is by no means unfastened, however safety was tighter this 12 months, partially due to these drone incidents over which there’s nonetheless quite a lot of questions as to what really occurred. We simply do not know. What we do know is there have been already issues over security amid the vacation. Nationally, authorities scrapped ceremonies through which Russians honor relations who died in World Battle II by marching with photos of them by the streets. Now, formally, that call was made as a result of safety issues. However once more, , you must marvel concerning the optics of Russians carrying photos of useless troopers, notably as there’s this intense debate over the actual numbers of casualties in Ukraine.

INSKEEP: Effectively, let’s speak about that. Do you get any sense of how Russian leaders, insiders, really feel about the best way the warfare goes in Ukraine?

MAYNES: Effectively, this vacation, it comes as we see high Russian navy figures, not for the primary time, at one another’s throats. Particularly, the top of the principle Russian mercenary power, the Wagner group, has, in latest days, publicly laid into the protection minister over an absence of ammunition and different points. And once more, it simply performs this distinction between previous and current. World Battle II is that this story of unbelievable sacrifice that affected almost each household within the Soviet Union, together with, I’d add, Ukrainian households, and it is a story we all know resulted in victory. The warfare in Ukraine, nevertheless, is a narrative of a navy marketing campaign the place the navy has to date struggled to realize its objectives. And it is a story whose conclusion nonetheless appears very a lot doubtful.

INSKEEP: NPR’s Charles Maynes is in Moscow. And, Charles, I am glad you are there. Thanks very a lot to your insights.

MAYNES: Thanks.

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INSKEEP: For the primary time, the American Psychological Affiliation is issuing suggestions for youngsters’ use of social media.

MARTÍNEZ: And it comes at a time when teenagers and tweens are going through excessive charges of despair, nervousness and loneliness. There’s proof that social media could make all of these issues worse.

INSKEEP: NPR psychological well being correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff is right here. Good morning.

MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF, BYLINE: Good morning, Steve.

INSKEEP: OK, what do they suggest?

DOUCLEFF: So the suggestions focus actually on two details. First is the content material on children’ feeds. The APA says dad and mom want to verify to reduce harmful content material, together with that associated to suicide, consuming problems and racism. Research counsel that publicity to those dangerous behaviors can really promote them in some kids.

INSKEEP: And I might think about that some kids see that form of factor typically.

DOUCLEFF: You already know, it has turn out to be extra frequent than perhaps many dad and mom notice. A latest survey of teenage women utilizing social media discovered that greater than a 3rd come throughout content material associated to suicide or consuming problems at the very least as soon as a month. Dr. Arthur C. Evans is a CEO for the APA. He says dad and mom additionally want to concentrate on cyber hate and cyber bullying.

ARTHUR C EVANS: On-line cyber bullying could be extra dangerous than offline bullying. So there’s an influence that’s larger for on-line bullying.

DOUCLEFF: So the APA tips say that for youths below age 15 or so, dad and mom ought to actually be with the kid after they use social media.

EVANS: As kids turn out to be older, you are going to be spending extra time teaching, speaking, serving to to coach your baby.

DOUCLEFF: The APA additionally notes that this harmful materials actually should not be within the kid’s feed within the first place, and that that duty sits largely with the tech corporations making these platforms.

INSKEEP: And but the suggestions put quite a lot of burden on the dad and mom. The concept of being there on a regular basis your child is close to a display appears problematic. Is that the correct phrase?

DOUCLEFF: Completely. And monitoring the feeds – proper? – is difficult.

INSKEEP: Yeah. Yeah.

DOUCLEFF: It is a criticism I am listening to from quite a lot of clinicians. Considered one of them is Bob Keane. He is a psychologist at Walden Behavioral Care, which helps teenagers with consuming problems. He says it is unrealistic to anticipate dad and mom to have the ability to monitor children’ accounts like this, particularly when children know extra about social media than dad and mom do.

BOB KEANE: We’re in a disaster right here, and a household’s capacity or guardian’s capacity to handle this proper now could be very restricted. And that is, I feel, what households actually need assistance with. What will we do? You may’t monitor children’ utilization on this as a guardian. It is actually – they get away from you.

DOUCLEFF: So many psychologists inform me this steerage actually cannot be carried out with out cooperation from tech corporations or some federal regulation.

INSKEEP: OK. Effectively, till that occurs, is there the rest dad and mom can do?

DOUCLEFF: Yeah. You already know, the opposite large advice is to get children coaching earlier than they begin social media or whereas they’re on it. They must be taught about this harmful content material and the truth that quite a bit on social media is a spotlight reel of individuals’s lives, proper? It isn’t actuality. Research present that when teenagers examine themselves to those photos, it will probably trigger despair. And keep in mind, these platforms could be addictive. The algorithms attempt to preserve children on these platforms so long as attainable. So one tangible piece of recommendation I am listening to, Steve, is for households to have intervals within the day the place no one within the household is utilizing social media in any respect.

INSKEEP: Oh, I am sorry, Michaeleen. I used to be simply checking Instagram. What had been you saying?

DOUCLEFF: (Laughter).

INSKEEP: I am simply kidding.

DOUCLEFF: No social media for an hour – everybody.

INSKEEP: Received you. There we go. Nice. Nice. I am going to go for that. Michaeleen, thanks a lot.

DOUCLEFF: Thanks, Steve.

INSKEEP: That is NPR psychological well being correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff. And significantly, should you or somebody could also be contemplating suicide, contact the 988 Suicide & Disaster Lifeline by calling or texting 988.

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