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The Congressional Budget Office estimates that ending what's known as cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers will raise the deficit $194 billion over 10 years.

David Greene talks Republican Rep. David Young of Iowa, who's a Trump supporter, but disagrees with the president on trade tariffs. Iowa exports $10 billion of goods annually.

After the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise, Steve Inskeep talks to Mark Kelly. Kelly's wife, Gabrielle Giffords, was a congresswoman when she was shot in an assassination attempt in 2011.

Scott Simon talks with Tamika Calhoun of Jackson, Miss., about how inflation has affected the budget for her family of seven.

Robert Siegel talks with Thomas Lasorda, President and CEO of the Chrysler Group. Lasorda, along with his colleagues at Ford and General Motors, will soon meet with President Bush in Washington. Lasorda talks about the state of business at Chrysler and how he envisions the company's future with oil prices remaining at record levels.

Thousands of guitar collectors head to Dallas for one of the biggest guitar shows of the year. Vintage Martins, Fenders and Gibsons might sell for as much as a quarter of a million dollars. The market for the guitars has been brisk, as aging baby boomers buy up classic models.

Host Jacki Lyden and New York Times Magazine Ethicist Randy Cohen discuss the ethics of peddling memorabilia. They thrash out the dilemma of a listener whose friend works for a firm has been selling souvenirs with the image of the late Pope John Paul II. The friend wonders whether it's proper to sell such souvenirs for a profit.

Right after college, Adam Shepard boarded a train with only $25. In his book Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream, he writes about spending a year as a day laborer and living in a homeless shelter before finding a steady job and an apartment.

MP3s of every show the iconic punk band ever played — all 850 shows, all 1,300 hours — will be available to buy off the Internet. Listeners can decide how much to pay for these hyper-authentic recordings.

A new poll finds that more than two-thirds of Native Americans say inflation is causing them to have trouble making ends meet. Higher food and gas prices compound their already precarious situation.