Health care reporter Alice Miranda Ollstein and guest host Jeremy Siegeldig into Alice's story on the 'hard stop' that 40,000 National Guardmembers currently face. The Trump administration’s order currently endsdeployments on June 24, just one day before thousands would qualify foreducation and retirement benefits.

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Dan Diamond is host of POLITICO Pulse Check and author of the POLITICOPulse newsletter.Jeremy Siegel  is a host for POLITICO Dispatch.Alice Miranda Ollstein is a health care reporter for POLITICO.Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio. Jenny Ament is the senior producer of POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio.