Thursday Update： April 17, 2025
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Summary
A new CNBC poll shows President Trump with a +7 net approval rating on his policy of deporting illegal aliens from the United States. President Trump announces the cancellation of more than $2.5 million in grants to Harvard University. World Health Organization announces its negotiations have been completed on a final draft of a proposed international legal document to govern pandemic response in May, and President Trump details the latest productive trade deal with Japan and Mexico.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, April 17th.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this week announced the cancellation of more than $2.5 million in grants to Harvard University.
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This says tensions between the school and the Trump administration continue to grow.
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The Department of Homeland Security said in a Wednesday press release that Noem unveiled
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the discontinuation of two grants from the Department at Harvard's worth more than $2.5 million.
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DHS also noted in a press release that the secretary requested
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detailed records on Harvard's foreign student visa holders, illegal and violent activities, in a letter.
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Harvard bending the knee to the anti-Semitism driven by its spineless leadership fuels a cesspool of extremist riots
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and threatens our national security, Noem said in a statement that she released also on Wednesday.
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Quote, with an anti-American pro-Hamas ideology poisoning its campus and classrooms,
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Harvard's position as a top institution of higher learning is a distant memory.
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Americans demand more from universities entrusted with taxpayer dollars, she added.
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Columbia University, the other Ivy League school, that's having a little problem with public funding
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and probably will continue to have issues over the next few years.
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A new CNBC poll shows President Trump with a plus-seven net approval
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on his policy of deporting illegal aliens from the United States.
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In a CNN poll, a majority of voters favor deporting illegal immigrants from the United States
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despite ongoing leftist narratives suggesting otherwise,
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particularly when it comes to the recently deported El Salvadorian National,
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that MS-13 gang member whose Democrats are desperately trying to bring back to the country.
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The one that a senator from Maryland went over to try to go bring back to the country?
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Now, this poll, this latest data, comes from CNN, as I said,
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which found that 56% support deporting an estimated 11 million illegal aliens residing in the United States.
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This is significantly up from the 38% who said the same thing in 2016.
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A lot has happened since 2016, but the American people are tired of it and fed up, as they should be.
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The World Health Organization announced this week that its negotiations had been completed
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on a final draft of a proposed international legal document to govern pandemic response.
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This is set to be voted on by the World Health Assembly in May.
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Negotiation on the drafting of the pandemic agreement took years
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and often heeded debates as the WHO negotiators pressured countries
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to agree to provisions to share medical technology with poor countries
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at discounted prices and accepted international authority on public health policies.
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Drafters have not yet apparently agreed on what kind of international legal documents they will agree upon,
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covenant and treaty, or other formats at the press time.
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WHO Director Tedros Adhanan has been campaigning
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for adopting an international law on pandemic law
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following his agency's catastrophic failure to properly address the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic
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when it began spreading out of the Chinese city of Wuhan, of course, in 2020,
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blaming much of the failure on countries not properly sharing scientific data
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This is the man who was responsible for the wording and the pandemic,
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and now he wants everyone to sign a treaty, and he wants to be in charge.
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Well, the good news is, is President Trump withdrew us from the WHO.
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President Trump details the latest productive talks with Japan and Mexico
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quote, I had a very productive call with the president of Mexico yesterday.
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Likewise, I met with the highest level Japanese trade representatives.
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President Trump, of course, meeting with the Italian Prime Minister of Italy today.
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President Trump announced a 24% reciprocal tariff on Japanese trade,
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20% reciprocal trade tariff on the European Union.
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However, President Trump has paused those tariffs on the EU, Japan,
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it turns out enforcing the southern border and enforcing Border Patrol
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94% drop in apprehensions of illegal aliens attempting to enter the United States.
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The apprehensions of migrants by Border Patrol agents fell to approximately 263 per day
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during the first two months of the Trump administration
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for more than 4,600 per day during the same period under the Biden administration.
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A federal judge has ruled that Google illegally monopolized some online advertising technology markets,
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dealing a significant blow to the tech giant's main reserve source.
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Bloomberg is reporting that U.S. District Judge Leone Brechema
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has delivered a mixed ruling in an ad tech anti-trust case against Google,
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finding that the company violated antitrust law in markets or advertising exchanges
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and ad server tools used by websites to sell ad space.
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However, the judge did not find Google to be a monopoly in the markets for tools
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We'll keep you updated on how the end of that case goes
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will be forced to break up at least some of the company.
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Folks, please be sure to join us today and each and every day
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