Thursday Headlines： March 13, 2025
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Summary
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.
Transcript
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, March 13th.
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Happy Thursday, folks. I hope your days are off to a great start.
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If they're just getting started, if they started early, I hope they're going even better, as always.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune calling the Marxist Dems bluff.
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Vowing to move forward on the Trump-backed House-passed funding plan.
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Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer, that Marxist, announced this week that
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after a lunch with his fellow Democrat Marxist caucus,
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he would reject a House-passed government plan to keep the government funded past his Friday deadline
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through the end of the fiscal year, which is September 30th.
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Quote, funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but the Republicans choose a partisan path.
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Drafting their continuing resolution without any input, any input from the Congressional Democrats.
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This was according to Chuck Schumer on a Senate floor speech.
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Quote, because of that, because of the Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke closure on the House CR.
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Of course, legislation in the Senate requires 60 votes to invoke the closure,
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a necessary step in ending debate and advancing the bill to the floor.
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Now, as I said, Senate Majority Leader John Thune is calling Schumer's bluff.
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He moved forward on Wednesday evening to schedule the vote to invoke closure on Friday.
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Thune has 53 Republicans to Schumer's 47 Democrats,
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although Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has said he will oppose the CR.
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Therefore, eight Democrats will be needed to invoke cloture to fast-track the bill for passing.
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Now, the relatively clean CR is only 99 pages, folks.
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We haven't seen a bill that short in a very long time.
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It includes minimal modifications to current spending levels,
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including a $485 million spending bill for immigration and custom enforcement, ICE,
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requested by President Trump's Bordersar, Tom Homan, to facilitate his continued deportations.
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Democrat overwhelmingly supported these spending levels in December,
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although freezing current spending levels throughout an entire fiscal yield
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would be a monumental achievement for the Republicans, especially for the spending hawks.
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The Marxist Dems will own, will own, folks, this government shutdown,
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as they have in the past, but this one falls solely on them.
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Trump is threatening Europe with a 200% wine and spirit tariff.
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Consequences are looming for trying to resist President Trump's bid
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to rebalance the United States' economic relationship with the rest of the world
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He signaled on Thursday threatening a mega 200% tariff on European alcohol.
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The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the world,
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which was formed with the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States,
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The U.S. will shortly place a 200% tariff on all wine, champagnes, and alcohol products
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coming out of France and other EU representative countries.
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This will be great for wine and champagne business in the United States.
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It's a big problem that we are a consumption economy.
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It's a big problem that we haven't had a surplus in trade since 1975, folks.
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When we are the number one GDP country in the world,
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there's no reason we should have a four times higher deficit in trade than the next country,
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So, President Trump doing all he can to bring America back to the front
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President Trump signs an executive order this week cracking down on radical activist judges
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and he's demanding to pay court costs to stop frivolous injunctions
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costing taxpayers millions and millions of dollars.
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This anti-democratic takeover is orchestrated by a form of shopping organizations
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that repeatedly bring meritless lawsuits used for funding and political grandstanding
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Taxpayers are forced not only to cover their costs and their antics
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but most needlessly wait for government policies they voted for.
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Moreover, this situation resulted in the Department of Justice,
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dedicating substantial resources to fighting frivolous suits
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This effective administration of justice in the federal courts
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depends on mechanisms that deter frivolous litigation
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Folks, we saw it all throughout President Trump's campaign
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And there was no repercussions ever levied on any of these people.
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And over in Russia, Vladimir Putin says he is in favor,
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He warns he has serious questions for President Trump on how it would work.
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Vladimir Putin says he wants this long-term peace.
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who's been hesitant to any long-term peace deals or anything like that,
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saying he will not recognize any Russian territory in the region
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about impending Epstein files released with a major announcement.
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President Trump says he will deliver a major speech
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fueling rumors that pedophile Just Jeffrey Epstein's files
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remarks about restoring law and order, according to Axios.
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Now, it's unhighly unusual for a president to deliver a speech at the DOG
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as the agency strives to remain independent from the White House,
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As always, I hope your days are going exceedingly well.