Washington Today (4-18-23): Supreme Court weighs new workplace religious practice accommodation rule

Supreme Court hears a case asking the question 'when must a business accommodate the needs of religious employees? The lawsuit comes from a former mail carrier in Pennsylvania who was told he had to work Sundays, in violation, he says, of his Christian beliefs in that Sabbath day of rest.

We hear some of today's Supreme Court oral argument and talk about the case with Time Magazine reporter Sanya Mansoor (2).

It is Tax Day, the deadline for most people to file federal tax returns or ask for an extension. House Republicans and Democrat are offering different tax reform proposals.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy presents his plan to other House Republicans to raise the national debt limit to avoid a first-ever default, and couple that with federal spending cuts, an approach rejected by President Biden and Congressional Democrats.

House votes on an override attempt of the President's veto of a bill that would nullify new regulations on what waterways in the U.S. are subject to the Clean Water Act.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks about what will happen in under month when Title 42 expires. That is the public health emergency authority that has been used to keep migrants crossing the Mexico border from staying in the United States. One Republican Senator introduces a resolution expressing 'no confidence' in Secretary Mayorkas because of his handling of the immigration issue.


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