The Great America Show - June 26, 2025


Thursday Update： June 26, 2025

Topics
Elizabeth McDonough and Trump's bill
Hosted by
John Fawcett Lou Dobbs
Mentioned
Trump Harry Reid Elizabeth McDonough Lisa Murkowski Susan Collins Tony Schaefer Kevin Nolan John Thune
Wednesday Update： June 25, 2025 Democrats suffer BIGGEST BLOW yet after SCOTUS hands Trump MASSIVE WIN

Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

178.0

Word count

940

Sentence count

60

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

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General Electric is moving washing machine production from China to the United States, the U.S. economy shrank in the first quarter, and the Senate strikes down a key piece of President Trump's immigration bill, the Budget Control Act.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm John Fossett with This Great America Show, midday update for Thursday, June 26th.
00:00:05.140 Happy Thursday, folks.
00:00:06.620 Hope you guys are all staying cool out there and your summers are off to a great start.
00:00:10.240 Here in New York City, it's the last day for schools for the New York public school system.
00:00:14.940 As parents now get to deal with their kids at home for the next two months or so.
00:00:19.900 We pray for all you guys and like I said, I hope your summers are all off to a great, great start.
00:00:25.580 Promises made, promises kept.
00:00:27.080 You hear me say it each and every day on this show, like a broken record, but I'm only saying it because it's happening and it's happening right before our very eyes.
00:00:35.500 General Electric's Appliances is moving their washing machine production from China to America.
00:00:41.760 Kentucky exactly is where it's going.
00:00:44.040 $500 million investment, quote, we are bringing laundry production to our global headquarters in Louisville
00:00:49.600 because manufacturing in the United States is fundamental to our zero-distance business strategy
00:00:55.200 to make appliances as close as possible to our customers and consumers.
00:00:59.960 That's according to CEO Kevin Nolan.
00:01:02.660 He says that this decision is their most recent product reshoring and aligns with current economic and policy environment.
00:01:09.380 I guess they just don't like the T word.
00:01:12.420 That's right.
00:01:13.320 Tariffs.
00:01:14.360 Nobody could like them, right, if you're the one eating the tariff.
00:01:17.120 And speaking of economics, the U.S. economy shrank for the first three months of 2025, also known as the first quarter,
00:01:24.180 with the latest government data showing a deeper contraction than previously estimated
00:01:28.300 as consumer spending lost momentum and a surge in imports widened in the trade gap.
00:01:33.860 Gross domestic product declined at an annual rate of 0.5% in the first quarter.
00:01:37.720 Commerce Department releasing those numbers this afternoon, marking the economy's first contraction since early 2023.
00:01:44.280 The figure was revised down from the previous estimate of 0.2% decline.
00:01:49.060 It stood sharp contrast to the 2.4% growth recorded in the fourth quarter of last year.
00:01:54.400 The pullback largely by an increase in imports, which subtract from the GDP calculation,
00:01:59.360 along with declines in the government spending and weaker than expected consumer expenditures.
00:02:04.060 Real exports were also revised lower.
00:02:05.840 And the big, beautiful bill that's sitting right now in the Senate, facing a little bit of some troubles,
00:02:11.460 an unelected leftist Marxist Democrat bureaucrat, who no one ever voted for,
00:02:17.520 single-handedly gutting President Trump's signature bill, with the stroke of the pen,
00:02:21.960 calls for her termination are now emerging, but the Senate majority leader is not willing to go for that.
00:02:27.540 Why would he, right?
00:02:28.520 She was appointed back in 2012 by Harry Reid.
00:02:31.540 And John Thune, who's a Republican, at least it's what he tells us, allowing this woman to stay in her position.
00:02:39.680 This afternoon, the Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough struck down several key features of President Trump's big, beautiful bill,
00:02:46.020 including defunding of Medicaid for illegal aliens and defunding gender-affirming care under the Medicaid and CHIP Act,
00:02:54.040 citing the Byrd rule.
00:02:55.100 The parliamentarian also acts the Medicare provider tax, which complicates the Senate GOP's math,
00:03:01.520 on the spending cuts it needs to pass the legislation.
00:03:05.020 This is the second time now that McDonough has removed key parts of President Trump's bill.
00:03:09.820 This is absolutely unbelievable.
00:03:12.420 Some other key parts that she's rejecting, the federal government's defunding of sanctuary cities,
00:03:17.240 which I'm sure is just a big coincidence,
00:03:18.820 defunding the CFPB, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a rogue agency,
00:03:25.700 the EPA's efforts to roll back electric vehicle mandates,
00:03:28.960 a proposal to restrict federal courts from issuing nationwide injunctions.
00:03:33.660 McDonough was a partisan hack.
00:03:35.020 It was appointed, like I said, back in 2012, when Harry Reid ran the Senate.
00:03:39.520 Fortunately, Republicans are no obligation to abide by her activism 0.95
00:03:43.500 because her opinion is merely just advisory.
00:03:46.260 For example, the Senate can hold a simple majority vote on the floor
00:03:49.920 to establish a new precedent to expand the scope of what is eligible under reconciliation.
00:03:56.120 The Senate GOP can also fire this woman 1.00
00:03:58.360 and replace her with another parliamentarian with a simple majority vote. 0.68
00:04:02.660 Given the Senate has 53 Republicans, they can afford to lose three,
00:04:06.360 provided J.D. Vance is in town to be able to break the rule.
00:04:10.540 Now, we could count off two right off the bat,
00:04:13.080 who probably won't go for this, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski,
00:04:17.380 rhinos, but they can afford to lose three.
00:04:20.900 So you probably got one more out there who hates President Trump
00:04:24.380 and is willing to do all they can to stifle the Trump agenda,
00:04:27.940 especially when it comes to the big, beautiful bill.
00:04:30.980 Folks, please be sure to join us tonight for The Great America Show.
00:04:33.760 We're going to be joined by my good friend,
00:04:35.580 a retired lieutenant colonel and president of Project Sentinel,
00:04:38.540 Tony Schaefer.
00:04:39.800 We're going to break down these leaks from CNN.
00:04:43.080 CNN, the biggest threat to democracy, as I often say on the show.
00:04:46.360 We're going to break all that down, the peace plan in Gaza that's underway right now.
00:04:50.300 President Trump giving it a two-week timeline.
00:04:53.600 We take all that up today on The Great America Show, folks, 6 p.m. Eastern time.
00:04:58.760 Rumble YouTube, Twitter, wherever you guys join us for The Great America Show.
00:05:02.520 We'll see you there, 6 p.m. Eastern time.
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00:05:08.180 And you can follow me on Twitter at JohnFawcettNY, folks, 6 p.m. sharp.
00:05:13.180 We'll see you there.
00:05:13.840 I'm John Fawcett with this midday update.
00:05:15.980 Have a great day, everybody.