The president also said in a January 5 interview that the United States is not at war with Venezuela and there will be no early elections. He denied a Washington Post report that the reason he refused to support opposition leader Maria Colina Machado’s takeover was because she had won the Nobel Peace Prize, which she had coveted.

President Trump said of Machado, “She shouldn’t have won.” “But no, that has nothing to do with my decision.”

Early on January 3, the United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a military operation and took him to New York City on drug trafficking charges. Maduro pleaded not guilty in federal court on January 5. Delcy Rodriguez, who served as Maduro’s vice president, became interim president.

According to a news release announcing the results of the vote, these factors “made it impossible for CPB to continue to operate as intended by the Public Broadcasting Act.”

A 1967 law established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as a non-profit, non-governmental organization tasked in part with developing “programming of high quality, diversity, creativity, excellence and innovation,” with “strict observance of objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature.”

For decades, programming aired on PBS with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting included children’s programs such as Sesame Street, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and Arthur. Cooking shows featuring celebrities such as Julia Child. FRONTLINE documentary. Science programs like NOVA. And a masterpiece drama. Federal funding also supported public alert systems that alert viewers and public radio listeners to impending danger.

The removal of the measure came after a chorus of outrage from activists, including those aligned with the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, and members of the president’s own party.

It was the latest example of a controversial proposal in Congress making its way into a spending bill that must be passed at the eleventh hour. Other measures related to aviation safety and the ability of lawmakers to sue the Justice Department have also threatened the success of such legislation in recent months.

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Experts argued that the pesticide proposal, known as Section 453, would not allow for timely updates of warnings and would tie regulators’ hands to the Environmental Protection Agency.

The case, which opens an important chapter in the U.S. federal case against a former head of state accused of narcoterrorism, has generated mixed reactions both inside and outside the courtroom. It directly impacts the Venezuelan diaspora, U.S. foreign policy, and the judicial calendar of one of the country’s most influential courts.

Maduro appeared in prison uniform, handcuffed with zip ties, shortly after noon on January 5, after being transferred by helicopter from a Brooklyn prison to Manhattan.

What crimes is Nicolás Maduro facing in the United States?

A federal indictment from the U.S. Department of Justice details that deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro faces four major charges, including narco-terrorism conspiracy and conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States. The document alleges that for more than two decades, President Maduro and his alleged collaborators led an international network, using air and sea routes, and relying on armed groups and criminal organizations to traffic large quantities of cocaine into U.S. territory.

Maduro, who was expelled from Venezuela by the U.S. military, filed his petition just two days after arriving in New York. If convicted, the ousted Venezuelan leader could spend decades in prison.

“I’m innocent. I’m not guilty. I’m a decent human being. I’m still the president of my country,” Maduro said in court on January 5, but was cut short by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein.

Maduro was in court for his arraignment. An arraignment is a formal proceeding in which a defendant is informed of the charges he or she is facing and given an opportunity to plead. His wife, Cilia Flores, was also present and has pleaded not guilty to several similar charges.

In the wake of last year’s record fiscal crisis, there is little appetite on Capitol Hill to allow the funds to expire past the looming Jan. 30 deadline.

But even if lawmakers fail to pass more spending measures by then, the government would only be partially shut down. Congress already approved a series of full-year funding measures in November.

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The same Democrats who pushed hard to shut down the federal government last October — largely in hopes of pressuring Republicans to extend health care benefits that expired at the beginning of the year — have already said they have no intention of doing it again.

U.S. forces captured the Maduro couple in a surprise attack on January 3, after months of increased U.S. pressure on the oil-rich country. At a news conference later in the day, President Trump said the United States would run the country until there is a “safe, appropriate and wise transition.”

Asked by Kristen Welker on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Jan. 4 what he meant by that, Secretary of State Marco Rubio seemed to back away from his claim that the U.S. “runs” the country and instead focused on using “leverage.”

“Well, it’s not implementing policy, it’s implementing policy, it’s implementing policy on this,” he said.