The top local stories this morning from KERA News:
A $1.3 trillion government spending bill awaits a signature from President Trump. Though in a tweet, he said he’s considering a veto over Dreamers and border wall funding.
The spending bill includes the Fix NICS Act. Texas Senator John Cornyn co-authored that legislation to strengthen background checks for gun purchases. It holds government agencies accountable when they fail to input a person's criminal history into the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS.
Fix NICS is a response to the November church shooting of more than two dozen people in Sutherland Springs.
The Air Force acknowledged it had failed to add the gunman's domestic violence conviction into NICS, which would have barred him from buying the guns he used in the shooting.
Other stories this morning:
- Students across the country will protest against gun violence tomorrow at what they're calling the March For Our Lives. Harrold ISD Superintendent David Thweatt is on the other side of the gun issue. For the last decade, some staffers in Harrold ISD have legally carried concealed weapons.
- In our Friday Conversation, a student leader from Frisco talks about why she got involved in the debate.
You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:23 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.
