The World and Everything in It: May 28, 2025

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LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Good morning!

President Trump’s big, beautiful budget bill is now in the hands of the Senate but debate over spending cuts could derail the whole thing.

HARRIS: The president called for waste fraud and abuse to be eliminated. I don’t think that’s where the bill sits.

NICK EICHER, HOST: That’s ahead on Washington Wednesday.

Also today: WORLD Tour.

And later, mentors who changed a young man’s life for the better.

THOMPSON: We talk about brothers and sisters in the church a lot … we forget it’s mothers and fathers too.

And sometimes the most important thing to say is actually the easiest. Commentary from WORLD’s Janie B. Cheaney.

MAST: It’s Wednesday, May 28th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

MAST: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Trump-Russia » President Trump may be closer than ever to pulling the trigger on new sanctions against Russia.

He’s grown more frustrated with Vladimir Putin’s lack of cooperation with efforts to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war. Special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, retired general Keith Kellogg said Tuesday:

KELLOGG: One thing you don’t do, I really believe this, is you put President Trump in a position where he feels he’s being used. And I think that is a terrible position for everybody to be in.

And Trump is increasingly angered by Russia’s continued attacks on civilian areas in Ukraine. In a social media post, Trump said “What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire!”

LAVROV: [Speaking in Russian]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov brushed off Trump’s remarks:

LAVROV: [Speaking in Russian]

He accused Trump of reacting emotionally and said the Kremlin does not focus on his rhetoric.

But Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev said of Trump’s “really bad things” remark — “I only know of one REALLY BAD thing — WWIII. I hope Trump understands this!”

President Trump has not threatened U.S. military action against Russia but has threatened new sanctions.

COVID vaccine CDC recommendation changes » The federal government is no longer recommending COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:

KENNEDY:   We're now one step closer to realizing President Trump's promise to make America healthy again.

He announced the changes in a video message, joined by the FDA Commissioner and the director of the National Institutes of Health. Kennedy went on to say:

KENNEDY:  Last year, the Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another COVID shot, despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children.

But critics, like Dr. Michael Olsterholm, who served on then-President-elect Joe Biden’s Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board say it is the decision to lift those vaccine recommendations that lacks scientific basis.

Last week, the FDA announced routine COVID vaccine approvals will be limited to seniors and those with underlying health risks.

California rule change after trans athlete qualifies » The governing body for California high school sports has changed its rules for this weekend's state track and field championship after a so-called transgender student athlete qualified for the meet. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher has more.

BENJAMIN EICHER: California officials will still allow boys who identify as girls to compete in female athletics. But in response to criticism the governing body says it’s changing the rules to allow more girls to qualify for the meet.

President Trump has threatened to pull federal funding in California if the state did not protect girls from having to compete against boys.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office says the rule change ahead of the championship meet is reasonable.

Newsom earlier this year said he believed that allowing biological males to compete in girls and women’s sports is unfair.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

King Charles III speech » Britain's King Charles III delivered a historic address in Canada Tuesday, a rare so-called Speech from the Throne.

CHARLES: As the anthem reminds us, the true north is indeed strong and free.

The king is the ceremonial head of state in Canada, which is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies.

His speech marked the opening of Canada's Parliament. That made him the first monarch to do that in nearly 50 years.

CHARLES:  Today, Canada faces another critical moment. Democracy, pluralism, the rule of law, self-determination and freedom are values which Canadians hold dear, and ones which the government is determined to protect.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says the king’s appearance underscores Canada’s sovereignty. That follows President Trump’s repeated suggestion that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state.

Liverpool parade attack » In the U.K., Liverpool police say they do not believe the incident in which a man drove his vehicle into a crowd of soccer fans Monday was an act of terrorism.

Assistant Chief Constable of Merseyside Police Jenny Sims says the investigation is ongoing:

SIMS:  And we continue to ask people not to speculate on the circumstances surrounding the incident and refrain from sharing distressing content online.

Authorities arrested a local 53-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder and possibly driving under the influence of drugs.

Hundreds of thousands of people were gathered in the city to celebrate the Liverpool Football Club’s championship.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer:

STARMER:  Scenes of joy turn to utter horror, um, and devastation. And my thoughts and, and the thoughts of the whole country are with all of those that are affected.

At least four children were among the injured.

Rick Derringer obituary » Guitarist and singer Rick Derringer has died at the age of 77. The musician shot to fame at age 17 when his band The McCoys recorded this song:

AUDIO: “Hang on Sloopy”

“Hang On Sloopy” was a number one hit in 1965.

Derringer also enjoyed some solo success, and worked behind the scenes producing or performing with acts like Steely Dan, Bonnie Tyler, and Cyndi Lauper.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: the budget bill passed the House, but the Senate version could get held up by fiscal conservatives. Plus, a young man’s journey to find role models.

This is The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: It’s Wednesday, the 28th of May.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Lindsay Mast.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

Time now for Washington Wednesday.

AUDIO: “On this vote, the ‘yeas’ are 215 the ‘nays’ are 214 with one answering present. The bill is passed.”

It couldn’t have been any closer last week when the House okayed a measure titled, “The One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” House Speaker Mike Johnson announcing the vote, and sending it to the Senate.

To do it, he overcame conservative opposition not to the “beautiful” part, but to the “big” part: as in, big spending. WORLD Washington Bureau reporter Leo Briceno now on what’s in there.

LEO BRICENO: A key focus of the Big Beautiful Bill centers on a straightforward problem: tax cuts made in 2017 under the first Trump Administration are set to expire at the end of this year.

That’s what led lawmakers like Florida Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart to push the bill over the finish line last week.

DIAZ-BALART: There’s no alternative except to pass this legislation. Otherwise we’re looking at a huge tax increase on the American people.

The bill does a myriad of other things too; it includes funding for the border wall, aims to cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood, finances a new missile defense system and more. But coming into the year, Republicans knew the tax component was going to be the centerpiece of Trump’s legislative agenda. And with new additions the president promised—like ending taxes on tips and overtime pay—It’s also by far the most expensive part of the bill.

So how does the bill compensate for the tax cuts—and everything else?

It does so in two main ways.

First, in order to get to the $3.5 trillion figure Republicans hope to cut by 2034, lawmakers will need to cut expenses every year for ten years in their annual spending legislation. While they’re in power for the next two years, Republicans can start down that road, but Oregon Congressman Cliff Bentz says he’s counting on future sessions of Congresses to finish the job.

BENTZ: Obviously, you put it in place as best you can during these two years and then you have to say whoever comes along next realizes that the budget has been set up a certain way… So as these things are put in place, others that come along later are going to have to look at it and go ‘oh this is not going to change easily’ but you can’t bind a future congress. Except as to debt apparently.

A few Republicans are skeptical that those cuts will actually happen. Here’s Thomas Massie of Kentucky—one of the two Republicans who voted against the bill’s passage.

MASSIE: This bill dramatically increases deficits in the near term but promises our government will be fiscally responsible five years from now. Where have we heard that before? How do you bind a future Congress to these promises?

The second way Republicans aim to cut spending is by reworking ongoing government programs that will extend beyond the current session. And there’s one particular program the Big Beautiful Bill aims to re-tool.

Medicaid is a joint federal-state partnership that provides health insurance for low-income Americans, seniors, and individuals with disabilities. And in 2024, it accounted for 13 percent of government spending overall. Republicans aim to trim that number down by making sure only those eligible are actually participating in the program.

MURPHY We want to strengthen Medicaid for the people who are eligible and stop the gimmicks…

Congressman Greg Murphy runs his own medical practice in North Carolina. Most of the patients he serves are on Medicaid.

MURPHY: I care about hospitals. I want to make sure that they’re funded. But just like anything, we just have to have accountability in all of our systems to make sure that they provide the resources for the people who need them.

Among other changes, the package would require states to verify recipient addresses to prevent enrollment in two states at once. It would require a quarterly evaluation of deceased recipients, monthly checks on providers to eliminate fraud, and proof of citizenship, nationality, or immigration status from participants. The bill would also require able-bodied recipients between ages 19 and 64 to work at least 80 hours a month.

Those changes would begin at the end of 2026. It would not change standards for anyone with disabilities.

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget office, those changes will account for 20 percent of all the savings Republicans hope to ultimately achieve by 2034. The Budget office also estimates those changes will leave almost eight million people without health insurance.

Many Republicans wanted to go further. Here’s Congressman Andy Harris of Maryland, chairman of the conservative-leaning House Freedom Caucus.

HARRIS: In its current form, I can’t support the bill. It does not eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in medicaid. The president called for waste fraud and abuse to be eliminated. I don’t think that’s where the bill sits

In the end, Harris didn’t vote against the bill but he didn’t support it either. He voted present.

Republicans like Harris had hoped to scale back federal dollars obligated to individual states through the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage—or FMAP. The Federal government pays at least one dollar for every dollar that states raise for Medicaid. Some Republicans had hoped to put more of the financial burden back onto the states.

The bill doesn’t change the amount the Federal government pays into Medicaid but what it does do is freeze some of the tools states use to draw in federal contributions.

That’s led some Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York to believe that states will be left with funding shortages the federal government would normally pick up if costs go up.

CORTEZ: What other sources? What other sources? They tied their hands on the provider tax to drive up revenue. So they’re blowing a hole in state budgets. So what are states going to do? …. Because they have tied up all the revenue raisers states traditionally turn to in order to fund Medicaid.

It’s unclear just how the Big Beautiful Bill Act and its many priorities might change in the Senate. Over the weekend, Trump said he expects some tweaks to the package passed by the House. Any changes made by the Senate would have to be re-approved by the House before heading to the president’s desk.

Already, at least one senator believes the bill goes too far. Here is Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri talking about some of the Medicaid changes.

HAWLEY: I’m not going to support this bill from the House in this form. I think that’s clear. It has got to change before it can pass the Senate.

With the bill’s one-vote success this time around, convincing the conference to support more changes would be a tall order for Speaker Johnson.

Here’s Florida Congressman Diaz-Balart again.

DIAZ-BALART: With something of this magnitude there are other parts that can be improved, there are parts that one doesn’t like. But the question is what’s the alternative? … I think, you know, we have to understand that no bill is perfect but this is frankly about as good as it’s going to get under the circumstances.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Leo Briceno in Washington, D.C.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: WORLD Tour with our reporter in Nigeria, Onize Oduah.

SOUND: [Protesters chanting]

Libya rally — Today’s World Tour begins in the North African nation of Libya, where protesters are demanding that the prime minister step down.

Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah assumed office after a United Nations-backed transition plan in 2021.

But he has remained in office after planned elections failed over disagreements between rival political factions.

Calls for his resignation increased after clashes between two rival armed groups in the capital city of Tripoli turned deadly earlier this month.

Abdelraouf Zahloul is a Tripoli resident.

ZAHLOUL: (Speaking in Arabic) We do not want successive transitional periods. We are tired of transitional periods. We want to go to elections. We want a civil state. We want to be like other countries.

He says that the protesters no longer want any transitional periods, but want elections that will lead to a proper civil government.

Libya has faced political unrest since the NATO-backed ouster … of longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

Chile Indigenous settlement — Over in South America, Chilean President Gabriel Boric has announced his proposals to end a long-running conflict between the government and an indigenous group called the Mapuche.

The Chilean government has long clashed with the Mapuche over issues like land ownership and discrimination. Some Mapuche activists have attacked construction and logging projects to push for an autonomous state.

A presidential commission set up two years ago consulted with more than 5,000 people across various regions hoping to resolve the conflict.

Boric said the findings propose a new method for restituting indigenous lands, constitutional recognition of indigenous people, and setting up an indigenous affairs unit within the state.

BORIC: (Speaking in Spanish) Following the commission's recommendations, we will strengthen the support program for victims of rural violence to offer sufficient, thorough and continued support, including psychosocial care, and we will also update the victim registry.

He says that his government will also offer more support to victims of rural violence.

But some indigenous activists have questioned whether the government will follow through with such widespread reforms.

SOUND: [Georgian Independence Day ceremony]

Georgia Independence — Over in Europe, the country of Georgia celebrated its independence on Monday with a military parade and an oath ceremony.

Government officials and members of the ruling Georgian Dream party attended the ceremony, but the opposition boycotted it.

Georgia has faced widespread protests since a parliamentary vote in October that brought victory to the Georgian Dream party.

But opposition protesters called the results illegitimate over allegations of Russian involvement and vote rigging.

Elene Gotsiridze is a Tbilisi resident who joined the Independence Day protests on Monday.

GOTSIRIDZE: Today we celebrate and also we have some kind of feeling of protest that we are, we are losing our independence because of the foreign actors, neighbors, large big neighbors who want to abandon our freedom, and we have a double feeling.

She says it’s a celebration but also a protest against foreign actors who want Georgians to abandon their freedom.

India monsoon — We wrap up in India, where the annual summer monsoon rains have arrived earlier than usual in parts of the country.

Heavy rainfall drenched the financial hub of Mumbai on Monday after a similar downpour over the weekend in southern Kerala state.

The rainfall usually begins in June and runs until September.

It already brought flooding to some streets in New Delhi.

Residents have blamed the poor drainage system.

Abhishek Tiwari is a New Delhi resident.

TIWARI: (Speaking in Hindi) The priority should be cleanliness. If the tunnels are not cleaned, garbage will keep accumulating like this, which will in turn cause waterlogging irrespective of what the government does.

He called for regular cleaning of tunnels to avoid garbage from accumulating.

The annual monsoons bring landslides and flooding, but also provide much of the downpour that farmers need for their crops.

That’s it for this week’s World Tour. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Oduah in Abuja, Nigeria.

NICK EICHER, HOST: You wake up in your peaceful Norwegian fjord, and staring back at you is a container ship at least five times taller than your house and longer than a football field. It’s run aground, having just about run the house into the ground.

HELBERG: [Speaking in Norwegian]

That’s the owner of the house, Johan Helberg, saying something along the lines of “it could’ve been worse… five yards closer and it would’ve been in my bedroom.”

An investigation is under way, but for now let’s just say the vessel missed a turn and went sliding toward the village. No one was hurt—just 16 confused crew and one startled neighborhood.

Helberg hopes his very bulky new neighbor weighs anchor soon. Yeah, no kidding. Because nothing says “good morning” like a 40-thousand ton pop-in guest.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Wednesday, May 28th.

Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: the importance of role models.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 250,000 children live without a biological, step, or adoptive father in the home. For boys especially, that absence can leave a lasting void, one aggravated by a culture that’s told them that their masculinity is toxic.

EICHER: What does it mean to be a good man? A good husband? A good father? WORLD’s Caleb Bailey met a young man who found the answer with the steady presence of three ordinary men who stepped up. Here’s his story.

THOMPSON: You wanna grab your end I’ll grab my end first. I'm gonna pull your end off first.

CALEB BAILEY: The last freeze of early spring has burned off, which means it’s time for Nick Thompson to get to work on his farm. His first task? Upgrade a newly purchased 10 ton truck with a 16 foot bed.

Thompson lives on a 60 acre farm in Upstate South Carolina with his wife and three kids.

THOMPSON: Farming is hard work, but it's rewarding work. I love working in God's creation. I am the happiest when I work outside.

As he spray paints his new truck his life appears idyllic. There’s plenty of land to work and a goal to eventually live off of it. There isn’t much more that he wants. But years ago, his life looked much different. During his childhood, Thompson lacked basic needs. Relational needs.

THOMPSON: My dad was not very active in our lives at all. My father was ... emotionally and spiritually absent from his kids.

Thompson’s dad neglected the kids, but he wasn’t physically abusive. His mom, though, was a different story.

THOMPSON: I remember when I was probably 5 or 6 years old, I got poison ivy. I very allergic to poison ivy. Instead of getting medical attention I got straightjacketed in sheets and blankets and tied up with belts on the basement floor.

She eventually abandoned her family.

THOMPSON: She's somewhere probably in Georgia, Alabama. I've not spoken to her since she left my dad.

Instead of feeling safe and secure, Thompson felt fearful and ignored for most of his childhood.

Without the stability of a two-parent household, studies show boys tend to struggle in school, and then later in their careers. Many also take years to get married and some don’t get married at all. In the worst cases, the boys turn to substance abuse and criminal activity.

But Nick Thompson found refuge in one of the few places left with structure and guidance, the church he grew up in.

THOMPSON: So I guess saying all that is, you I didn't have the best dad at all. But you know, sometimes God can use that kind of stuff to...to our benefit.

While his parents' attendance petered out, Thompson kept going back. And it was there that he eventually found role models. Not just one but three.

When Thompson was twelve years old he started going to the church property with a Marine veteran, Carter McFarland. There, the two cared for the 10 acres, mowing, weeding, planting flowers. Before long McFarland began inviting Thompson to learn some of his favorite hobbies.

THOMPSON: He took me squirrel hunting. He taught me how to work on tractors and vehicles. He just kind of ignited that love in me, you know?

Another older church member named Tom Trice taught him how to drive a car, when Thompson’s own parents refused to.

When Trice decided to build a house, he included Thompson in each step of the process.

THOMPSON: And we went and got all the lumber and cut it all and framed studded walls and hung drywall. Partially installed a bathroom.

These skills came in handy years later as Thompson became a handyman, using the very skills Trice taught him.

Trice was old enough to be Thompson’s dad or even grandfather, but the two were more like best friends. They planned to take a trip across the country to see the Grand Canyon, but their earthly friendship was cut short.

In 2020, Tom Trice died.

THOMPSON: That was harder for me than when my dad died.

Thompson misses the projects. The driving. But most of all, he misses their conversations.

THOMPSON: Unconditional love and conversations that, you know, normal boys would have with their father.

Towards the end of Tom’s life, one of his sons, Warren picked up where his dad left off. At 38-years old, he was much closer to Thompson in age, but ended up becoming a friend and mentor too.

Thompson lived with the Trice’s for a couple of years when he was in his early 20s.

There, Thompson saw firsthand the value of being a father and a husband. A servant leader. One night sticks out in his memory.

THOMPSON: His wife had had a rough day with the kids. It had just been a tough day.

Trice noticed his wife’s demeanor, walked upstairs, drew a bath and encouraged her to spend an hour or two relaxing while he fed the kids dinner. Thompson knew the dad had a long day too, but that didn’t stop him.

THOMPSON: I’d never seen someone love their wife like that. I cried myself to sleep that night. I was like 20 years old.

Warren, specifically, showed Thompson that marriage and raising children are not burdens, but joyful.

THOMPSON: We talk about brothers and sisters in the church a lot, ‘brothers and sisters in Christ’ whatever. You forget there are mothers and fathers too, you know.

Thompson wanted to help others like him and follow the example of the men in his life, so he volunteered with an inner-city ministry. But the spiritual fathers in his life also helped him reexamine how he views ministry and the home. He understands how much the young people in his own family need him, as well.

THOMPSON: So I'm not somewhere every Friday night, I'm not somewhere every Saturday working for an inner city ministry with somebody else's troubled kids, I'm working with my own kids. And I'm trying to create a life for my kids that is different from the world, I guess.

Thompson has a regular job Monday through Thursday, leaving the three day weekend to tend to the farm. He hopes, one day, to live off the farm and provide food there for his family. It will also give him a chance to be something his own dad was not. A present father and husband.

THOMPSON: Hey babe, we're probably gonna walk down to the river. Do you want to keep them up here with you and then when I get back I'll spend some time with the kids?

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Caleb Bailey in Greenville, South Carolina.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Wednesday, May 28th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Up next, WORLD commentator Janie B Cheaney says the key to deeper relationships might just start with a little small talk.

JANIE B. CHEANEY: There’s a saying that great minds talk about ideas, mediocre minds talk about things, and small minds talk about people. Which makes me wonder: what kind of minds talk about their ideas about people and things?

That’s easy: female minds. Loquacious women have long been a staple of standup comedy, common stereotypes, and inattentive husbands grunting behind their newspapers, but now there’s scientific proof. A research team at the University of Arizona analyzed the everyday conversation of nearly 22-hundred participants in four countries over fourteen years. The participants wore recording devices during a portion of their day, producing over 631,000 audio clips.

To be sure, individuals vary, and it’s interesting that the most talkative and least talkative subjects of the study were both men. Age was a factor: in the teen years girls and boys talked at roughly the same rate, while seniors of both sexes talked less as they aged. But in early to middle adulthood the difference was striking, as women averaged between 1500 and 3600 more words per day than men.

Researchers speculate that mothers in their childbearing and child-raising years converse a lot more with their kids. That’s a reasonable assumption, but I found no indications in the study of what women talked about. From experience, I can guess: Their kids. Diets, recipes, and restaurants. Spouses, parents and extended family. Vacations and everyday excursions. Not gossip, just small talk.

I’ve had deep conversations with good friends, and you probably have too. But the way we got to be friends was through everyday chatter. Most of us don’t start conversations with “What’s the meaning of life?” With us gals it’s more likely to begin with, “Where did you get those shoes?” Such basic dialogue openers could lead to, “Let’s try that new coffee shop on the square,” to “How did you meet your husband?” to “I was reading in the Psalms this morning, and found something I never noticed before . . .”

There’s an art to effective small talk, and not all of us have that knack. My husband, who defied many stereotypes, was naturally better at starting random conversations than me. But anyone with a vocabulary can improve their skills, if they’re intentional about it. God gives us this wonderful ability to communicate, not just to pass the time, but to assist each other, to form relationships, to share stories, and finally to glorify Him.

I want to regard small talk as a gift and enjoy it as I would any good gift from a loving Father. Intentional small talk starts with simply noticing people, whether acquaintances and strangers, in church or at the park or in the office. Noticing will almost always provide an opening like “Is that your granddaughter?” Or even better, a compliment, such as, “I love her lively imagination!” Or if I’m bold enough to break into someone’s communion with their phone: “How do you like your Samsung?” Who knows when small talk could lead to something big?

I’m Janie B. Cheaney.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: an Executive Order mandates American drug producers match the prices they offer in other countries. That might sound good, but what are the tradeoffs? And, President Trump welcomes refugees from South Africa, just how bad are the threats facing white farmers in that country? That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

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