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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

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

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:

The president meets in the present day 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 advised 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 isn’t keen to try this, he does not have as a lot leverage, I believe, as some Democrats hope.

INSKEEP: NPR’s Claudia Grisales is overlaying 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 part of Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell and Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries for this 4 p.m. Japanese assembly. And it is going to be the primary dialog for this group – the primary joint dialog – since this combat over the debt restrict bought underway. It is also the primary since Home Republicans handed a invoice that they dubbed the Restrict, Save, Develop Act, which might increase the debt ceiling by 1.5 trillion or till March of subsequent 12 months, whichever occurs first. And that laws consists of vital cuts in authorities spending over the following a number of years. It claws again Biden initiatives and unspent funds from payments such because the pandemic reduction help.

And as an instance 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’re not anticipating a significant breakthrough in the present day on a everlasting deal.

INSKEEP: OK. Default on America – DOA. Type of exhausting 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 greatest exams 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 might 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 evaluate to the final time this turned a disaster, which was 2011?

GRISALES: Two figures from in the present day’s assembly – Biden is then vp 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 assume we must always word Biden, in fact, was vp 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 costume uniforms marched with arms swinging throughout Purple 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 Struggle II, nevertheless it’s exhausting to look at with out fascinated about the opposite battle. 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 practically 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 Purple Sq. in the present day?

MAYNES: Properly, you realize, the ceremony on Purple Sq. deliberately echoes the grand Soviet army parades of the previous, but this 12 months’s occasion appears considerably muted, I’d say. There have been just some 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 very best of what Russia has in a televised parade whereas precise fight is happening 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 referred to as a cult of Nazism in the present day. Actually, there have been troopers and army households from the present army marketing campaign within the viewers, and Putin addressed them straight.

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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 in the present day and that they are combating for the way forward for the Russian folks within the nation. Now, it is value mentioning that even earlier than the battle in Ukraine, some Russians had been extremely uncomfortable with the way in which Putin has politicized this vacation normally. However amid the combating in Ukraine, there’s actual concern that these comparisons with World Struggle II undermine reputable delight within the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany – a battle 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: Properly, it is by no means unfastened, however safety was tighter this 12 months, partially due to these drone incidents over which there’s nonetheless plenty of questions as to what really occurred. We simply do not know. What we do know is there have been already considerations over security amid the vacation. Nationally, authorities scrapped ceremonies during which Russians honor relations who died in World Struggle II by marching with photos of them by means of the streets. Now, formally, that call was made resulting from safety considerations. However once more, you realize, it’s a must to marvel in regards to the optics of Russians carrying photos of lifeless troopers, significantly as there’s this intense debate over the actual numbers of casualties in Ukraine.

INSKEEP: Properly, let’s discuss that. Do you get any sense of how Russian leaders, insiders, really feel about the way in which the battle goes in Ukraine?

MAYNES: Properly, this vacation, it comes as we see prime Russian army figures, not for the primary time, at one another’s throats. Specifically, the pinnacle of the primary 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 Struggle II is that this story of unbelievable sacrifice that affected practically each household within the Soviet Union, together with, I’d add, Ukrainian households, and it is a story we all know led to victory. The battle in Ukraine, nonetheless, is a narrative of a army marketing campaign the place the army has up to now 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 on 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 melancholy, 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 advocate?

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

INSKEEP: And I’d think about that some kids see that sort of factor usually.

DOUCLEFF: You recognize, it has develop into extra frequent than possibly many mother and father 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 issues a minimum of as soon as a month. Dr. Arthur C. Evans is a CEO for the APA. He says mother and father additionally want to pay attention to cyber hate and cyber bullying.

ARTHUR C EVANS: On-line cyber bullying may be extra dangerous than offline bullying. So there’s an affect that’s better for on-line bullying.

DOUCLEFF: So the APA pointers say that for youths beneath age 15 or so, mother and father ought to actually be with the kid once they use social media.

EVANS: As kids develop into older, you are going to be spending extra time teaching, speaking, serving to to teach 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 firms making these platforms.

INSKEEP: And but the suggestions put plenty of burden on the mother and father. The concept of being there on a regular basis your child is close to a display appears problematic. Is that the fitting phrase?

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

INSKEEP: Yeah. Yeah.

DOUCLEFF: It is a criticism I am listening to from plenty of clinicians. One among them is Bob Keane. He is a psychologist at Walden Behavioral Care, which helps teenagers with consuming issues. He says it is unrealistic to count on mother and father to have the ability to monitor children’ accounts like this, particularly when children know extra about social media than mother and father 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 believe, what households actually need assistance with. What can 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 firms or some federal regulation.

INSKEEP: OK. Properly, till that occurs, is there anything mother and father can do?

DOUCLEFF: Yeah. You recognize, the opposite huge suggestion is to get children coaching earlier than they begin social media or whereas they’re on it. They should 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 evaluate themselves to those pictures, it could actually trigger melancholy. And bear in mind, these platforms may be addictive. The algorithms attempt to hold children on these platforms so long as doable. 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: Obtained you. There we go. Nice. Nice. I will go for that. Michaeleen, thanks a lot.

DOUCLEFF: Thanks, Steve.

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

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