Mid-Day Update： November 13, 2025
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Summary
The longest government shutdown in the history of this country is finally over and President Trump has signed a bill to reopen the government. Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. John Fetterman is in the hospital after a fall near his home in Pennsylvania. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan announces a blistering new inquiry into the Justice Department.
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Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, November 13th.
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Well, the longest government shutdown in the history of this country is finally over.
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President Trump announcing last night from the Oval Office,
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well, he signed that bill to reopen the government just past 10 o'clock Eastern time.
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President Trump calling out the Marxist Dems for trying to extort the American people
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for one and a half trillion dollars to fund the illegal aliens.
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The United States in an attempt to extort American taxpayers for hundreds of billions of dollars for illegal aliens
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and people that came into our country illegally from gangs, from prisons, from mental institutions.
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They wanted to pay them one point five trillion dollars, which would have really hurt our health care businesses
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and our recipients at levels never seen before.
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Today, we're sending a clear message that we will never give in to extortion, because that's what it was.
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They tried to extort. The Democrats tried to extort our country.
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In just a moment, I'll sign a bill exactly like we asked Democrats to send us.
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All along, many days ago, this cost the country one point five trillion dollars,
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To call it an excursion, I think, is to put it nicely.
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What the Democrats did was just a disgrace and disjustice to America and all of our government workers
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who make this country run every single day and make this country great and make this country safe.
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They cared about playing politics and they cared about stopping Donald Trump at any cost.
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It didn't matter who was responsible at any cost.
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It was all about stopping the big, bad orange man.
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And folks, as I've said all along, the Marxist Dems once again lost,
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and they're going to lose when it comes time for the midterm elections,
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when the voters go to the polls to vote, and they remember what they did to them.
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Now, President Trump last night, in his address out of the Oval Office,
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doubling down, demanding the filibuster be ended by the Senate,
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because the Marxist Dems are going to do it anyway.
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You also want to call for a termination to the filibuster so that this can never happen again.
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If we had the filibuster terminated, this would never happen again.
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And don't forget, we have another date coming up in the not-too-distant future.
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And we should be able to pass great, really great legislation.
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So I say terminate the filibuster because, by the way,
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the Democrats will do it immediately if they ever assumed office,
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And that's the message President Trump has been pushing ever since he called for the end of the filibuster.
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The Marxist Dems are going to do it as soon as they seize power anyway,
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so the Republicans might as well do it, get a head start, and push through the agenda.
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But it's going to take John Thune and the rest of his rhinos in the Senate to go ahead and get the votes for that.
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He's a big tough guy these days, so we'll have to see what happens.
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Speaking of the Senate, Democrat Senator John Fetterman,
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who's sort of been the voice of reason through this whole government shutdown,
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hospitalized earlier this morning after a fall near his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania.
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Fetterman was transported to a hospital in Pittsburgh out of abundance of caution.
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According to Fetterman's office, the senator had a ventricular fibrillation flare-up
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We pray for Senator Fetterman that he heals and is back to work ASAP.
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And with Congress now open, while the Republicans have been working throughout the whole process,
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the Democrats are the ones who haven't really been working,
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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Geordi today announcing a blistering new inquiry
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into the Justice Department's Inspector General's office,
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demanding answers about the watchdog's office' direct involvement
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in the Biden DOJ's highly controversial Arctic Frost investigation.
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You know, the investigation where Jack Smith ran totally rogue,
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the junkyard jackal subpoenaing everyone's phones, taking everyone's phones.
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By the way, we found out today Kevin McCarthy, former House Speaker,
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was another one who fell victim to Jack Smith's Arctic Frost and the cell phone seizure.
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Jim Jordan now wants answers, and I think the American people want answers
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to everything that's gone on during that investigation.
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We're taking all this up and much, much more with the government reopen.
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What happens next? Is the filibuster on its way out?
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