Monday Update： April 28, 2025
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Summary
Trump announces a new income tax as a way to mitigate the impact of his sweeping tariffs on China, IBM announces a $150 billion investment in the U.S. over the next 5 years, and President Trump is expected to sign an executive order directing the compliance of a list of states and jurisdictions that obstruct federal immigration laws.
Transcript
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, April 28th.
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Happy Monday, folks. I hope you all had a great weekend and your springs are springing, if that
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makes any sense. Beautiful day out here in the Northeast and I hope wherever you are, it's just
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the same. President Trump today floating a new income tax as a way to mitigate the impact of
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his sweeping tariffs, which poll show Americans are increasingly believe will lead to higher prices.
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That's not necessarily true. President Trump posting on social media, quote, when tariffs
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cut in, many people's income taxes will be substantially reduced, maybe even completely
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eliminated. Focus will be on people making less than $200,000 a year. Trump defended the strategy
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behind the steep tariffs in his post, maintaining that, quote, massive number of jobs are already
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being created, with new plants and factories currently being built or planned. He says
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it will be a bonanza for America. The external revenue service is happening. Now, President
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Trump still has those tariffs in on China as he works trade deals with some other Asian nations
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and the European Union. President Trump and Howard Lutnik have been pretty vocal about eliminating
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the tax on people making $150,000. It was originally, now they're saying under $200,000. The numbers
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that'll bring in and the amount of money that'll put people's pockets, what people don't realize
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is the overwhelming majority of Americans in the 80th percentile make a household income
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less than $200,000 a year. So this proposition is absolutely brilliant and allow the American
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people to spend their money as they want and not have the federal government taking it and
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who knows what they spend it on? Perhaps harboring illegal aliens into America? Human trafficking,
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drug smuggling, all that good stuff. While we're on the topic of tariffs and jobs in America,
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IBM announcing this morning it plans to invest $150 billion in the U.S. over the next five years.
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Now, this becomes the largest major tech firm to promise large-scale domestic investments
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during the Trump administration. The company said it will dedicate $30 billion towards advancing
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U.S. manufacturing of mainframe and quantum computers. Technology doesn't just build the future,
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it defines it, says the IBM chair and president of CEO. We've been focused on American jobs in
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manufacturing since our founding 114 years ago. And with this investment and manufacturing
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commitment, we're ensuring that IBM remains the epicenter of the world's most advanced computing
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and AI capabilities. Great on IBM. New polling out of CBS, the Marxist left CBS of just over 2,400
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adults, reveals that 56% of Americans approve of President Donald J. Trump's program to find and
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deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally. 90% of Republicans and 54% of independents approve,
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while just 22% of Democrats approve, according to the survey that was conducted last week.
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I wonder why the Democrats are so in favor of bringing illegals in here and allowing them to stay.
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It doesn't really make much sense. President Trump this afternoon is expected to sign an executive
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order directing the compliance of a list of states and jurisdictions that obstruct federal
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immigration laws. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt laying out this morning two orders
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that President Trump is set to sign on the eve of his 100th day in office. During a press briefing
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along borders are Tom Homan. She says President Trump will sign the executive order on law and order
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and another executive order on sanctuary cities. First executive order will strengthen and unleash
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America's law enforcement to pursue criminals and protect innocent citizens. The second executive
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order is centered around protecting American communities from criminal aliens and it will direct
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the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to publish a list of state and local
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jurisdictions that obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws. God bless President Trump and
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God bless the work he's doing in this great, great nation. The U.S. Secret Service on Sunday released a
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statement with more information about the illegal alien who stole DHS Chief Kristi Noem's purse. Over the
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weekend it was reported that an illegal alien was arrested for robbing Kristi Noem on Easter. 49-year-old
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Mario Bustamante Lavia was located and arrested in Washington, D.C. Secret Service spokesman Anthony
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Guglielmi released an update on the suspect arrest in connection with the robbery. Guglielmi says the
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illegal alien is quote a serial offender who's been in the country for years. Of course he has. I'm sure
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he was let in either under Barack Hussein Obama or Joseph Robinette Biden. Pretty good chance it was one
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of them. I want to turn now to something that we talk about very often on this show and it's schooling
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and it's proficiency within grades. So new report out taking a look at Illinois schools not one child
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tested proficient in math in 80 Illinois schools. A look at data from the Illinois public schools from
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2024 finds that not one single kid was able to become proficient in math and in 24 schools no child
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was proficient in reading. Despite these dismal numbers 70 percent of students were graduated to
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the next grade in 2024. This is according to data reviewed by Wireports. The numbers also show that
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more than 18,000 Illinois students it's among more than 4,000 schools were not proficient in basic
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education at age levels. The majority of those schools that failed students so badly were in Chicago
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public school system. Let's not forget something folks. Chicago is run by Marxist Dems who by the way
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has a seven percent approval rating I believe the last approval rating and has a massive deficit in
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the city and the state of Illinois is run by a Marxist Dems Governor Pritzker. So we keep electing
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these Marxist Dems and this is what the repercussions are for our students and for our children. An absolute
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disgrace to this nation. An absolute disgrace to our teachers and our schooling system that have
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continued and still continue to fail our students in this country. It's not just a travesty folks it's
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absolutely pathetic. Folks please be sure to join us today tomorrow the next day the next day and each
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Spotify, iHeart, wherever you guys get your audio podcasts. Tonight we're going to be joined by the
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great Mark Mitchell, leading pollster for Rasmussen Reports. I want to take up President Trump's
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polling in his first 100 days. Where we're at right now, historically where we're at, what does it look
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like for President Trump for the next six months, for the next year? Can we get out of this little
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polling slump we're in? We're going to take all that up with Mark Mitchell tonight, only on The Great
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America Show, folks. We'll see you at 6 p.m. I'm John Fossil with this midday update. Happy Monday, folks.