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The federal budget proposal presently before the U.S. Senate would advance much of the President’s domestic agenda. Along with Medicaid cuts, this budget plan would slash food assistance programs and clean energy initiatives, extend tax cuts, and limit income-driven student loan repayment programs. Danielle Battaglia, Capitol Hill correspondent at The News & Observer, joins co-host Jeff Tiberii to explain some of the potential impacts in North Carolina.

Then, "Moral Mondays" were born in North Carolina in 2013, but the movement has taken hold in other states and, in recent weeks, in the nation’s capital. On Monday, June 2nd, several clergy and activists connected with the movement were arrested at the U.S. Capitol while praying and opposing President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” One of the leaders of the Moral Mondays movement is Durham-based writer, preacher and activist Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. He joins Leoneda Inge to talk about the movement then and now.

And, one of Raleigh’s biggest office real estate owners is expanding its portfolio in North Hills. Reporter Zachary Eanes has the latest on that company’s bet that office space in the Capitol is still hot. And how the rapid population growth here is part of the calculation. (This conversation originally aired in April 2025.)