The Great America Show - March 13, 2025


Thursday Headlines： March 13, 2025


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Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

168.4438

Word count

1,169

Sentence count

71


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A government shutdown is officially in effect as the Senate refuses to act on a Democratic Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded past September 30th. President Trump threatens a 200% wine and spirit tariff on European wine and spirits. President Trump signs an executive order this week cracking down on radical activist judges.

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, March 13th.
00:00:05.340 Happy Thursday, folks. I hope your days are off to a great start.
00:00:08.140 If they're just getting started, if they started early, I hope they're going even better, as always.
00:00:13.140 Senate Majority Leader John Thune calling the Marxist Dems bluff.
00:00:17.500 Vowing to move forward on the Trump-backed House-passed funding plan.
00:00:21.740 Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer, that Marxist, announced this week that
00:00:24.880 after a lunch with his fellow Democrat Marxist caucus,
00:00:28.540 he would reject a House-passed government plan to keep the government funded past his Friday deadline
00:00:33.600 through the end of the fiscal year, which is September 30th.
00:00:36.980 Quote, funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but the Republicans choose a partisan path.
00:00:43.120 Drafting their continuing resolution without any input, any input from the Congressional Democrats.
00:00:48.340 This was according to Chuck Schumer on a Senate floor speech.
00:00:51.360 Quote, because of that, because of the Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke closure on the House CR.
00:00:57.000 Of course, legislation in the Senate requires 60 votes to invoke the closure,
00:01:01.880 a necessary step in ending debate and advancing the bill to the floor.
00:01:05.520 Now, as I said, Senate Majority Leader John Thune is calling Schumer's bluff.
00:01:09.340 Doesn't care.
00:01:10.520 He moved forward on Wednesday evening to schedule the vote to invoke closure on Friday.
00:01:15.380 Thune has 53 Republicans to Schumer's 47 Democrats,
00:01:18.660 although Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has said he will oppose the CR.
00:01:22.780 Therefore, eight Democrats will be needed to invoke cloture to fast-track the bill for passing.
00:01:28.780 Now, the relatively clean CR is only 99 pages, folks.
00:01:32.860 This is a new one.
00:01:34.240 We haven't seen a bill that short in a very long time.
00:01:36.540 It includes minimal modifications to current spending levels,
00:01:38.880 including a $485 million spending bill for immigration and custom enforcement, ICE,
00:01:45.640 requested by President Trump's Bordersar, Tom Homan, to facilitate his continued deportations.
00:01:51.600 Now, outside of those minor modifications,
00:01:53.520 Democrat overwhelmingly supported these spending levels in December,
00:01:57.200 although freezing current spending levels throughout an entire fiscal yield
00:02:00.440 would be a monumental achievement for the Republicans, especially for the spending hawks.
00:02:04.620 The Marxist Dems will own, will own, folks, this government shutdown,
00:02:09.920 as they have in the past, but this one falls solely on them.
00:02:13.880 The Republicans are united once and for all.
00:02:16.840 This one's on the Marxist Dems.
00:02:18.960 And to mess around and find out,
00:02:21.140 Trump is threatening Europe with a 200% wine and spirit tariff.
00:02:25.760 Consequences are looming for trying to resist President Trump's bid
00:02:28.940 to rebalance the United States' economic relationship with the rest of the world
00:02:32.480 to a more rational footing.
00:02:33.820 He signaled on Thursday threatening a mega 200% tariff on European alcohol.
00:02:39.340 President Trump, in a truth social, saying,
00:02:42.080 quote,
00:02:42.320 The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the world,
00:02:47.800 which was formed with the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States,
00:02:51.220 has put a nasty 50% tariff on whiskey.
00:02:54.260 This tariff is not removed immediately.
00:02:56.300 The U.S. will shortly place a 200% tariff on all wine, champagnes, and alcohol products
00:03:02.380 coming out of France and other EU representative countries.
00:03:06.400 This will be great for wine and champagne business in the United States.
00:03:10.620 President Trump putting America first, folks.
00:03:13.260 It's a big problem that we are a consumption economy.
00:03:17.780 It's a big problem that we haven't had a surplus in trade since 1975, folks.
00:03:22.420 We're running an over-trillion-dollar deficit.
00:03:24.960 We rely on all these other nations to import.
00:03:27.060 When we are the number one GDP country in the world,
00:03:29.780 there's no reason we should have a four times higher deficit in trade than the next country,
00:03:35.280 which is China, folks.
00:03:36.760 So, President Trump doing all he can to bring America back to the front
00:03:41.140 and bring American jobs back to this country.
00:03:45.520 President Trump signs an executive order this week cracking down on radical activist judges
00:03:49.380 and far-left groups abusing the courts,
00:03:51.940 and he's demanding to pay court costs to stop frivolous injunctions
00:03:55.900 costing taxpayers millions and millions of dollars.
00:03:59.780 This anti-democratic takeover is orchestrated by a form of shopping organizations
00:04:03.820 that repeatedly bring meritless lawsuits used for funding and political grandstanding
00:04:08.400 without any repercussions when they fail.
00:04:11.180 Taxpayers are forced not only to cover their costs and their antics
00:04:14.000 when funding and hiring decisions are enjoyed,
00:04:16.440 but most needlessly wait for government policies they voted for.
00:04:19.940 Moreover, this situation resulted in the Department of Justice,
00:04:22.640 the National Chief Law Enforcement Agency,
00:04:25.140 dedicating substantial resources to fighting frivolous suits
00:04:27.760 instead of defending public safety.
00:04:30.280 This effective administration of justice in the federal courts
00:04:32.740 depends on mechanisms that deter frivolous litigation
00:04:35.420 and protect parties from unwanted costs
00:04:37.240 and streamline judicial processes.
00:04:39.500 Folks, we saw it all throughout President Trump's campaign
00:04:41.780 when they used lawfare against President Trump
00:04:44.580 to try to get him off the ballot,
00:04:46.320 to try to get him out of there.
00:04:48.400 We paid for it, folks.
00:04:50.040 The American people.
00:04:51.120 We paid for it all.
00:04:52.320 And there was no repercussions ever levied on any of these people.
00:04:56.680 And over in Russia, Vladimir Putin says he is in favor,
00:05:00.300 ready folks, in favor of a 30-day ceasefire,
00:05:02.760 but it must lead to long-term peace.
00:05:05.240 He warns he has serious questions for President Trump on how it would work.
00:05:09.780 Folks, Donald Trump only wants peace.
00:05:13.600 Vladimir Putin says, quote,
00:05:14.900 Vladimir Putin says he wants this long-term peace.
00:05:35.480 Now, it's going to be on Zelensky,
00:05:37.540 who's been hesitant to any long-term peace deals or anything like that,
00:05:42.640 stoking the fire continuously today,
00:05:44.640 saying he will not recognize any Russian territory in the region
00:05:48.740 that they've taken back.
00:05:50.420 So, this sits on Vladimir Zelensky,
00:05:54.300 not so much Vladimir Putin.
00:05:56.260 And President Trump is fueling rumors
00:05:58.000 about impending Epstein files released with a major announcement.
00:06:01.900 President Trump says he will deliver a major speech
00:06:04.100 at the Justice Department on Friday,
00:06:06.100 fueling rumors that pedophile Just Jeffrey Epstein's files
00:06:08.800 could be released.
00:06:11.320 The speech is being billed as, quote,
00:06:12.940 remarks about restoring law and order, according to Axios.
00:06:16.160 Now, it's unhighly unusual for a president to deliver a speech at the DOG
00:06:20.400 as the agency strives to remain independent from the White House,
00:06:23.760 so it must be big, big news.
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00:06:49.620 I'm Jon Fossil with this midday update, folks.
00:06:51.920 Happy Thursday.
00:06:53.020 As always, I hope your days are going exceedingly well.