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Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: met Kaligi. The US House passed sixty one billion dollars

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Speaker 1: in fresh aid for Ukraine on Saturday, ending a six

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Speaker 1: month political impass during which keep stockpiles dwindled in its

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Speaker 1: war against Russia. The Ukraine aid will be combined with

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Speaker 1: funding for Israel and Taiwan for a foreign assistance package

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Speaker 1: totaling ninety five billion dollars. Speaker Mike Johnson worked with

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Speaker 1: Democrats and overcame fierce objections from within his own party

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Speaker 1: to funding Ukraine, ultimately pushing that legislation to passage on

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Speaker 1: a three eleven to one to twelve bipartisan vote. After

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Speaker 1: the vote, Johnson said, we did our work here and

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Speaker 1: history will judge us well. Volkswagen employees at a Tennessee

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Speaker 1: factory have voted to join the United Autoworkers, a landmark

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Speaker 1: victory for union organizing in the long hostile US South.

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Speaker 1: The union won by a vote of twenty six twenty

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Speaker 1: eight to nine eighty five. The US National Labor Relations

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Speaker 1: Board said late Friday, if the result is formally certified

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Speaker 1: by the agency, Volkswagen will be legally required to collectively

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Speaker 1: bargain over working conditions and compensation at the plant. The

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Speaker 1: VWD victory is a breakthrough for the UAW, which, after

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Speaker 1: decades of declining membership, is trying to expand by one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand workers across fourteen companies, including BMW, Toyota,

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Speaker 1: and Tesla. The union's membership has fallen from one and

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Speaker 1: a half million back in the nineteen seventies to around

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Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy thousand now. That's largely due to

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Speaker 1: failure to win over plants in the South, where unions

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Speaker 1: are scarcer and laws and politicians are more hostile. Presumptive

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Speaker 1: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump postponed his first rally since

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Speaker 1: the start of his first criminal trial over severe weather warnings.

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Speaker 1: Trump was scheduled to appear in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: but called into the rally, telling supporters to go home

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Speaker 1: to avoid thunderstorms in the area. He did attend a

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Speaker 1: fundraiser in Charlotte earlier in the day, which was set

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Speaker 1: to raise five million dollars for his campaign. Trump's next

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Speaker 1: scheduled rally is in Wildwood, New Jersey, next month. A

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Speaker 1: major Bitcoin software update has finally been completed. We get

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Speaker 1: the story from Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman.

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Speaker 2: The Bitcoin programming code update called HAVING has officially been completed.

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Speaker 2: The event, which occurs every four years, cuts in half

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Speaker 2: the daily reward paid to miners for validating transactions from

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Speaker 2: nine hundred to four hundred and fifty tokens. The HAVING

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Speaker 2: mechanism was instituted to maintain a hard cap of twenty

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Speaker 2: one million bitcoin, which is done to keep it from

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Speaker 2: becoming inflationary. The price of bitcoin remained a little unchanged

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Speaker 2: after the software update, at around sixty four thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: per token. Dan Schwartzman Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Earnings and first quarter economic growth are in focus on

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Speaker 1: the coming week. Bloomberg's Karen Moscow has more.

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Speaker 3: The busy week for earnings begins with Verizon on Monday,

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Speaker 3: followed by Tesla and Pepsi Tuesday. Metaplatforms, IBM and Boeing

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Speaker 3: report Wednesday. Microsoft and Alphabet are out on Thursday, and

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Speaker 3: then on Friday, we'll hear from Exxon and Chevron. Some

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Speaker 3: of the week's economic reports will be watching include durable

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Speaker 3: goods orders, which are out Wednesday. Thursday, we get that

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Speaker 3: advanced look at first quarter GDP, along with wholesale inventories

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Speaker 3: and initial jobless claims. Friday, It's personal income and spending

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Speaker 3: and consumer sentiment. Karen Moscow, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: HI, mortgage rates might be lifting the wallpaper business. Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: Tracy Junkie explains seven percent.

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Speaker 4: Mortgage rates are not exactly a comfortable situation for people

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Speaker 4: who want to buy their next home, so more of

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Speaker 4: us are making ourselves comfortable in our current homes. The

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Speaker 4: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies says homeowners are investing

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Speaker 4: at near record levels in home improvements. Also, fewer people

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Speaker 4: are renovating with a future buyer in mind, which might

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Speaker 4: be why YELP says demand for wallpapering services more than

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Speaker 4: doubled last year. Tracy Jonkie, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: A complex debris and wreckage removal process continues as crews

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Speaker 1: work to reopen Baltimore's being shipping channel following last month's

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Speaker 1: key Bridge collapse. Bloomberg's Amy Morris reports.

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Speaker 5: Maryland Governor Wes Moore revealed this week crews have removed

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Speaker 5: more than eleven hundred tons of steel from the wreckage site.

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Speaker 5: The US Army Corps of engineer's priorities include clearing the

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Speaker 5: Federal channel, refloating and removing the cargo ship that slammed

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Speaker 5: into the bridge, and then clearing the remaining wreckage. Officials

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Speaker 5: have set a goal to fully reopen the Port of Baltimore,

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Speaker 5: one of the busiest ports in the country, by the

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Speaker 5: end of May. In Washington, Amymore as Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: And after three rounds of the RBC Heritage at Hilton

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Speaker 1: head Masters, champion Scottie Scheffler eight under for the day

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Speaker 1: on Saturday, sixteen under for the tournament heads into Sunday's

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Speaker 1: final round with a two shot lead. And that's news

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Speaker 1: when you want it with Bloomberg News. Now, I Mad

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Speaker 1: Kleggy and this is Bloomberg