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This week on the North Carolina News Roundup: Protestors took to Raleigh to voice opposition to President Trump’s executive orders and to efforts to challenge 60,000 ballots in North Carolina's still unsettled State Supreme Court race. An update on Helene recovery efforts, almost five months after the storm ravaged western North Carolina. And, how the state budget surplus, tax cuts, and concerns over dropping off the fiscal cliff are all connected. We’ll get to those stories and more with a panel of reporters who’ve been following our state’s news.

Then, President Trump signed dozens of executive orders on his first day in office. Among them was Executive Order 14163: Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). Like so many of Trump’s executive orders, the impacts were felt quickly, including here in North Carolina. Celeste Headlee is joined by two reporters and the leader of a refugee resettlement agency to talk about the impact of Trump's suspension of the United States Refugee Admissions Program on resettlement organization operations and the refugees they support.