The Great America Show - October 02, 2025


Mid-Day Update： October 2, 2025


Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

171.79944

Word count

900

Sentence count

60

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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The government is still shut down and Democrats are still playing politics with the American people s money. What they don t realize is the only people they are hurting is innocent, hardworking Americans and not Donald Trump. ICE is still working. Airports are still open. The only people hurting is our members of the military and various people around the government who won t be getting paid.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, October 2nd.
00:00:04.600 Happy Thursday, folks.
00:00:06.020 If you're wondering, the government is still shut down and that's because the Democrats, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries,
00:00:11.300 deciding to still play politics, deciding to still play politics with the American people's money.
00:00:16.100 What they don't realize is the only people they're hurting is innocent, hardworking Americans and not Donald Trump.
00:00:22.680 ICE is still working.
00:00:25.120 Airports are still open.
00:00:26.460 The only people they're hurting is our members of the military and various people around the government who won't be getting paid.
00:00:33.100 But they don't care because it's all about the optics for them, right?
00:00:36.020 President Trump announcing this afternoon that he would meet with Russ Vogt, the OMB director,
00:00:40.940 and what they call the Project 2025 architect, to discuss which federal agencies may face reductions as the government shutdown continues.
00:00:49.520 Now, President Trump, implementing broad reductions to the federal bureaucracy during the Democrat-led government shutdown,
00:00:56.980 early this weekend, Russ Vogt announced the cancellation of nearly $8 billion in federal green energy projects,
00:01:03.080 targeting initiatives in blue and blue-leaning states such as California, Colorado, Illinois, and New York.
00:01:08.660 The administration also confirmed that $18 billion in infrastructure projects in New York,
00:01:13.840 including the Hudson Tunnel Project and the 2nd Avenue Subway,
00:01:17.220 would be placed on hold after a review of the contracting practices.
00:01:21.540 Vogt has played a central role in reshaping federal operations.
00:01:24.260 In August, Secretary of State and Acting National Security Advisor Marco Rubio appointed him
00:01:28.740 to oversee the closeout of USAID following Congress's approval of a $9 billion recessions package
00:01:35.440 that eliminated funding for USAID, PBS, and NPR.
00:01:39.760 Rubio said the move capped months of restructuring that transferred core functions to the State Department,
00:01:44.740 while Vogt noted his intent to finalize the agency's closure.
00:01:48.060 Now, Jeffries and Schumer have been making their media rounds trying to sell this thing any way they can.
00:01:52.840 Obviously, they're having a very hard time.
00:01:54.620 Again, Jeffries was on with none other than Jake Tapper of CNN the other day to try to spew some lies,
00:02:01.480 except Tapper held them to account and called out the simple lie
00:02:05.340 that this government funding that'll just be for a month or so,
00:02:10.740 this little CR, is the same government funding that's been happening under the Democrats.
00:02:15.840 It's just to keep the government open while the Republicans can work on structuring something.
00:02:19.960 That's how you know it's all politics.
00:02:21.340 Take a listen to Jake Tapper calling out Jeffries right to his face.
00:02:24.880 Very surprising.
00:02:26.120 The partisan spending bill, is that the one big beautiful bill or the continuing resolution?
00:02:29.740 Because this continuing resolution just funds the government at the current level.
00:02:32.940 Well, actually, the continuing resolution that they have presented to the Congress is a partisan bill.
00:02:38.140 House Democrats voted against it in March because it hurt veterans, hurt seniors, hurt children,
00:02:44.320 hurt child care affordability, hurt housing affordability, and hurt health care.
00:02:49.720 This is why we opposed it.
00:02:50.720 You're saying that Chuck Schumer then voted for a Republican partisan bill because he voted for that,
00:02:55.060 so did nine other Democrats in the march.
00:02:57.280 As you could hear, clearly a delusional man.
00:02:59.500 Now, as I said, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE,
00:03:03.440 the officials say arrests and deportations of criminal illegal aliens will continue to,
00:03:08.580 despite the government shutdown.
00:03:10.000 Quote,
00:03:10.220 So, like I said, Democrats are hurting nobody but themselves.
00:03:27.060 And the voters, they're going to figure it out when they go to the voting booth to vote for their next member of Congress,
00:03:34.280 because the Democrats have played politics for far too long, and the American people are tired of it.
00:03:39.900 And a blast from the past, Elon Musk, tech tycoon, has made history,
00:03:44.780 becoming the first person to amass a net worth exceeding $500 billion.
00:03:50.180 The incredible surge in Musk's wealth is driven by his interests and investments in Tesla, SpaceX, and XAI.
00:03:57.180 And the stock market seemingly unbothered by the government shutdown,
00:04:01.060 stocks edging to new record highs this afternoon as the U.S. government still doesn't seem to have an end in sight.
00:04:07.280 And when it's going to reopen again, the S&P moving slightly higher.
00:04:11.280 The Dow Dungeon gesture rose about 80 points.
00:04:13.900 NASDAQ raising about a half percent.
00:04:16.740 And speaking of markets, Netflix's grooming syndicate caught red-handed grooming children as young as two.
00:04:23.500 Boycott led by Elon Musk followed.
00:04:25.660 And now Netflix watching its stock slide for a second day in the row.
00:04:31.480 Shares slid just about a percent to about $1,100 ahead of the opening bell.
00:04:35.280 Having dropped 2.5% the previous session, Americans are tired of this woke nonsense
00:04:40.900 pushing our children to be indoctrinated by a woke transgender ideology, and parents don't want it. 1.00
00:04:47.900 So, people are voting with their wallets.
00:04:51.060 This is why conservatives are so good for America.
00:04:54.380 Folks, please be sure to join us tonight at 6 p.m. Eastern Time for The Great America Show.
00:04:57.700 6 p.m. Eastern Time for The Great America Show.
00:04:59.820 We'll be joined by Congressman Mike Herodopoulos of Florida.
00:05:02.900 He's on the Republican Study Committee.
00:05:04.140 We're going to find out what's going on with this government shutdown and how much longer it's going to last.
00:05:07.900 That's tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern for The Great America Show.
00:05:10.540 We'll see you there, folks.
00:05:11.640 I'm John Fawcett with this Midday Update.
00:05:13.440 Have a great day, everybody.