Mid-Day Update： October 2, 2025
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Summary
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.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, October 2nd.
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If you're wondering, the government is still shut down and that's because the Democrats, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries,
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deciding to still play politics, deciding to still play politics with the American people's money.
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What they don't realize is the only people they're hurting is innocent, hardworking Americans and not Donald Trump.
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The only people they're hurting is our members of the military and various people around the government who won't be getting paid.
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But they don't care because it's all about the optics for them, right?
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President Trump announcing this afternoon that he would meet with Russ Vogt, the OMB director,
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and what they call the Project 2025 architect, to discuss which federal agencies may face reductions as the government shutdown continues.
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Now, President Trump, implementing broad reductions to the federal bureaucracy during the Democrat-led government shutdown,
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early this weekend, Russ Vogt announced the cancellation of nearly $8 billion in federal green energy projects,
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targeting initiatives in blue and blue-leaning states such as California, Colorado, Illinois, and New York.
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The administration also confirmed that $18 billion in infrastructure projects in New York,
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including the Hudson Tunnel Project and the 2nd Avenue Subway,
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would be placed on hold after a review of the contracting practices.
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Vogt has played a central role in reshaping federal operations.
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In August, Secretary of State and Acting National Security Advisor Marco Rubio appointed him
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to oversee the closeout of USAID following Congress's approval of a $9 billion recessions package
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that eliminated funding for USAID, PBS, and NPR.
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Rubio said the move capped months of restructuring that transferred core functions to the State Department,
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while Vogt noted his intent to finalize the agency's closure.
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Now, Jeffries and Schumer have been making their media rounds trying to sell this thing any way they can.
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Again, Jeffries was on with none other than Jake Tapper of CNN the other day to try to spew some lies,
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except Tapper held them to account and called out the simple lie
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that this government funding that'll just be for a month or so,
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this little CR, is the same government funding that's been happening under the Democrats.
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It's just to keep the government open while the Republicans can work on structuring something.
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Take a listen to Jake Tapper calling out Jeffries right to his face.
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The partisan spending bill, is that the one big beautiful bill or the continuing resolution?
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Because this continuing resolution just funds the government at the current level.
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Well, actually, the continuing resolution that they have presented to the Congress is a partisan bill.
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House Democrats voted against it in March because it hurt veterans, hurt seniors, hurt children,
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hurt child care affordability, hurt housing affordability, and hurt health care.
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You're saying that Chuck Schumer then voted for a Republican partisan bill because he voted for that,
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Now, as I said, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE,
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the officials say arrests and deportations of criminal illegal aliens will continue to,
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So, like I said, Democrats are hurting nobody but themselves.
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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,
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because the Democrats have played politics for far too long, and the American people are tired of it.
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And a blast from the past, Elon Musk, tech tycoon, has made history,
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becoming the first person to amass a net worth exceeding $500 billion.
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The incredible surge in Musk's wealth is driven by his interests and investments in Tesla, SpaceX, and XAI.
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And the stock market seemingly unbothered by the government shutdown,
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stocks edging to new record highs this afternoon as the U.S. government still doesn't seem to have an end in sight.
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And when it's going to reopen again, the S&P moving slightly higher.
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And speaking of markets, Netflix's grooming syndicate caught red-handed grooming children as young as two.
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And now Netflix watching its stock slide for a second day in the row.
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Shares slid just about a percent to about $1,100 ahead of the opening bell.
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Having dropped 2.5% the previous session, Americans are tired of this woke nonsense
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pushing our children to be indoctrinated by a woke transgender ideology, and parents don't want it.
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This is why conservatives are so good for America.
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Folks, please be sure to join us tonight at 6 p.m. Eastern Time for The Great America Show.
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6 p.m. Eastern Time for The Great America Show.
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We'll be joined by Congressman Mike Herodopoulos of Florida.
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We're going to find out what's going on with this government shutdown and how much longer it's going to last.
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That's tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern for The Great America Show.