Monday Update： June 30, 2025
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Summary
After announcing his retirement from the Senate, Republican Sen. Tom Tillis took to the Senate floor and unleashed a scathing tirade against President Trump's signature, Big Beautiful Bill, also known as the "Big Beautiful Bill," which is a sweeping America First legislative package aimed at slashing wasteful spending and ending taxpayer-funded handouts to illegals.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, June 30th.
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It didn't take long after Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina, who happens to be a rhino,
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announced his retirement from the Senate over the weekend for his mask to come off.
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Just hours after revealing he won't seek re-election for the North Carolina Senatorship,
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took to the Senate floor and unleashed a scathing tirade against President Trump's signature,
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Big Beautiful Bill, also known as the BBB, which we all know is a sweeping America First legislative package
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aimed at slashing wasteful spending and ending taxpayer-funded handouts to illegals.
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One key provision of the bill? Defunding Medicaid for illegal aliens, refugees, and asylum seekers.
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Why would Tom Tillis be against it? Why is it too much for him?
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Tillis tried to justify his no vote by touting his past life in, quote,
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management consulting, and his old speaker days in North Carolina.
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Tillis cried and whined that the bill's Medicaid reforms would, quote,
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hurt North Carolina by cutting billions in provider taxes.
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His brazen claim that Trump would, quote, break his promise to Medicaid recipients,
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comparing Trump's reforms to Obama's infamous lie,
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if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
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Tillis has absolutely lost his mind, went on the Senate floor, and lied and lied and lied.
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If this were the case, his counterparts in the Senate, all 50-plus of them,
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Take a listen to part of Tillis's little tirade on the Senate floor.
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it is inescapable that this bill in its current form will betray the very promise that Donald J. Trump made
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in the Oval Office or in the Cabinet Room when I was there with finance,
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where he said, we can go after waste, fraud, and abuse on any programs.
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Now, those amateurs that are advising him, not Dr. Oz,
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I'm talking about White House health care experts,
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that were to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse,
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all of a sudden eliminates a government program that's called the provider tax.
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We have morphed a legal construct that admittedly has been abused
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and should be eliminated into waste, fraud, and abuse.
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You remember him sinking the nomination of D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin.
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We broke down on the show just how much money Tom Tillis has taken from Medicare companies
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He's taken in millions and millions of dollars.
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I'm going to have to presume when Tom Tillis retires,
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he's got a nice seven-figure job waiting for him,
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If I was a betting man, I think I would probably take a look at that.
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Speaking of health care and big pharma and all that good stuff,
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the Department of Justice this afternoon unveiling a record-shattering crackdown
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on the corrupt underbelly of America's health care system.
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A jaw-dropping 324 defendants, including 96 medical professionals,
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have been charged in 50 federal districts, 12 states for orchestrating over $15 billion
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in intended fraud, largely targeting Medicare, Medicaid, and federal health programs
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meant to serve the elderly, disabled, and the poor.
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The takedown was spearheaded by the DOJ's health care fraud unit
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in coordination with HHS, OIG, the FBI, and the DEA
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in over a dozen state attorney general's offices
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marks the largest health care fraud bust in United States history, folks.
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This is what the Trump administration is doing.
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border czar Tom Homan announcing AOC is now under federal investigation
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for employing illegal aliens on her staff and helping other illegals evade ICE.
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Take a listen to Homan's exchange earlier this afternoon
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because she's most likely planning on running for higher office.
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AOC has come and what looks like to us crossed the line a number of times,
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but two very curious stories out of her office.
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One, as soon as you were able to regain your position as border czar,
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AOC had a criminal alien who was working in her congressional staff flee the country.
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How is somebody allowed to be a criminal alien in this country
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and then go work in Congress where you have access to classified material
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and you have access to a lot of important information?
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Then AOC has gone on and obviously taught publicly illegal aliens how to avoid ICE.
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She's done this with some of her colleagues in the squad.
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Here's the article of the criminal alien staffer that AOC had on staff.
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Maybe you could just start here as an explainer to me and to this audience.
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It's my information that they're actually – I can't really comment on.
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We don't know if it was illegal status or not at this point.
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It looks like it might have been temporary status,
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but I can't comment on the case because it's under investigation.
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As far as her educating people on how to evade ICE arrest, she's really educating them on how to be prosecuted
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because there are statutes on the books, federal statute, when you knowingly hinder your removal.
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When you take steps to prevent your removal after being removed by a federal judge, it's a crime.
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We have instructed ICE to start prosecuting these cases.
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If you don't want to open the door and we have a final order of removal,
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if you don't want to participate in getting travel documents for your home nation,
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you take steps to hinder your own removal, that it's a crime, you'll be prosecuted.
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So she can claim she's educating people on their constitutional rights.
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I would argue she's educating many people on how to be prosecuted.
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Doesn't sound like it's going to be that easy of a summer for AOC.
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