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Doge finds an astounding number of immigrants on Medicaid and voter rolls. And the Florida Gators chomped the Houston Cougars in the NCAA basketball championship.
I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, April 8th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
The Trump administration gets another big legal win after the Supreme Court clears the way for the president to fire thousands of probationary federal workers. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has the latest.
The nation's highest court granted an emergency stay and halted the reinstatement of over 16,000 probationary federal workers that were let go since Trump took office. The justices ruled today that the nine nonprofit groups that challenged the firings lacked legal standing.
Justices Sotomayor and Jackson dissented. The decision blocks a lower court's order that the government rehire the workers, many of whom were dismissed without the full protections granted to permanent federal employees.
Plaintiffs argued that the mass terminations disrupted critical services at agencies like Veterans Affairs and the Forest Service. Government lawyers warned that the reinstatement would create chaos across agencies and maintain the cuts were performance-based.
Markets initially rallied today after several extremely rocky days, but the major stock indexes have since fallen back to their opening numbers. The S&P 500 jumped up 4% early on amid news that Trump trade deals were in the works, but it's since dropped to around even with its starting point.
Both the Dow Jones and Nasdaq followed similar patterns.

Meanwhile, global markets are looking healthier,

with the stock indexes in Tokyo, Paris, and Shanghai all climbing over the course of the day,

as has the price of crude oil after it hit a four-year low point.

From Japan to Argentina, countries are racing to Washington for trade talks.

Vietnam is facing the steepest hit with

90% tariffs, but has offered to eliminate its own tariffs if a deal is reached. Meanwhile,

allies like the UK and Canada are eyeing carve-outs, and India says it's willing to

slash duties on $23 billion in U.S. goods.
The European Union warns of countermeasures,

while South Korea, Mexico, and Australia press for fast-track negotiations.. Trump calls it one stop shopping for stronger U.S.
trade deals. President Trump says he plans to engage directly with Iran in a meeting scheduled for Saturday.
I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious. And the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with, or frankly, that Israel wants to be involved with, if they can avoid it.
So we're going to see if we can avoid it. But it's getting to be very dangerous territory.
And hopefully those talks will be successful. And I think it would be in Iran's best interest.
The president made the announcement Monday from the Oval Office

while seated next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The U.S. has not engaged directly with Iran since Trump's first term in 2018

when the U.S. withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal.

In the intervening years, Iran continued building its nuclear program

with a U.N. watchdog warning earlier this year

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A Doge official says that more than 1 million migrants are on Medicaid and thousands are illegally on voter rolls.

Here with the story is Daily Wire reporter Spencer Lindquist.

Doge official and private equity firm CEO Antonio Gracias reported that there are at least 1.3 million migrants currently receiving Medicaid and that thousands are on voter rolls across the country. He also said that the Biden administration's immigration policies were intended to import new voters and warned that an amnesty for illegal aliens could reshape America's political trajectory.
Go look at California. Okay.
Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, came to California. Ronald Reagan signed amnesty.
And, you know, some 40 years later, it is now a solidly blue state. We already have it in America where an amnesty program actually turned a very large state from one way to another.
South Korea has fired off warning shots after they say around 10 North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the military demarcation line. The South Korean troops first issued broadcast, then fired warning shots, prompting the North Koreans to retreat without incident.
No injuries were reported. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff say they're closely monitoring the situation.
A similar incursion happened in June involving up to 30 North Korean soldiers, just ahead of President Putin's visit to Pyongyang. And the Florida Gators came back from a 12-point second-half deficit to take home the NCAA tournament win.
They ended up beating the Houston Cougars 65-63. While Florida coach Todd Golden celebrated his first title, Houston's Kelvin Sampson was denied both his 800th win and a historic championship.
Walter Clay Jr. led Florida's comeback with all 11 of his points in the second half.
Those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn

more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And in case you missed it this morning, we covered

some big stories, including the stock market continues to respond to Trump's sweeping tariffs,

the Trump administration clamps down on Ivy League funding, and more female athletes take a knee

rather than compete with males. Thanks for tuning in.
We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.