Thursday Update： May 22, 2025
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Summary
A new report from the Department of Health and Human Services reveals a disturbing truth about how Americans are spending the money, where the federal government is spending it, and what it all means for the future of our country and our children. The U.S. Treasury is starting the process to phase out production of the penny, making good on President Trump s directive that the United States government will stop producing its 1 cent coins after more than 200 years. Harvard University is being told it can no longer enroll foreign students, and the House of Representatives passes the most critical bill that Trump has put forward so far in his legislative agenda.
Transcript
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Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, May 22nd.
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Secretary of HHS, RFK Jr., releasing a Maha report today, the first of its kind.
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Troubling information about just where Americans are spending the money, where the federal government's spending the money,
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and what it all means for the future of our country and the future of our children.
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Let's take a listen to some of RFK Jr.'s remarks from earlier today.
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All of us agree that the U.S. will cease to be a world superpower if we continue spending two times more than any country on health care,
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while living less than citizens of other countries and enduring fertility crisis,
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a crisis in recruiting people to the military, and the ruinous health care costs.
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Health expenditures are the largest part of the federal budget,
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and we get sicker for each and every dollar we spend.
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Ninety percent of that spending is going for chronic disease.
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And everyone agrees it's a moral failing that U.S. children are on track today to live shorter lives than their parents.
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The first time in American history where that is the case.
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This report is the first time in modern American history that the federal government gives a clear-eyed assessment
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of what is happening to children's health and the potential causes.
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If we don't get this under control, the already dying fertility rates in this country are going to be far worse than they already are,
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In other news, folks, start saving your pennies, no pun intended.
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The U.S. Treasury is starting the process to phase out production of the penny,
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making good on President Trump's directive that the United States government will stop producing its one-cent coins
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The Treasury Department spokesperson said the agency had placed its final order of pennies this month
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and that the U.S. Mint would continue manufacturing the pennies until that supply runs out.
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Now, for those of you who are asking, why are we getting rid of the penny?
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The Mint is saying that it expects it will realize an immediate annual savings of $56 million a year
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Trump ordered the move in February, citing the rising cost of production for the coin,
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saying, quote, for far too long, the United States has minted pennies,
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President Trump is very, very common-sense-oriented, I should say.
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revoking Harvard's right to enroll foreign students.
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is a major escalation of the president's fight with one of the world's most storied universities.
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President Trump, it's no secret that he's furious at Harvard,
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which had produced 162 Nobel Peace Prize winners,
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projecting his demands that it submit to oversight on a mission in hiring
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over his claims that it's hotbed of anti-Semitism and woke liberal ideology.
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Effective immediately, Harvard University's student exchange visa program
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wrote in a letter to the Ivy League institution
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by which foreign students are permitted to study in the United States.
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He's just asking to stop indoctrinating students.
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And the House of Representatives finally getting something done
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We're pretty hard on Mike Johnson on this show,
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All of us who voted for President Trump and for this agenda,
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They passed the most critical bill that Trump has put forward so far,
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Thomas Massey of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio,
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voting with the Marxist Dems on that big, beautiful bill.
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The vote came after a marathon of House Rules Committee hearing
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and ended 21 hours later when the panel sent the bill to the final vote on the House floor.
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The bill, exceeding 1,000 pages, extends the 2017 tax cuts,
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It also proposes significant spending on defense and immigration enforcement,
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including funding for the Continental Missile Defense System.
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It will also provide significant spending on defense and immigration enforcement.
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The bill will now head to the Senate where it's going to face a little bit of an uphill battle
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Lisa Murkowski, John Thune, Tom Cotton, Lindsey Graham.
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But it's going to face a little bit of an uphill battle over there
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because the rhinos and the Dems are going to take the bill apart
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So we'll keep you up to date on how it's going over there,
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but it's going to take some time to get that thing rolled through.
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blocking President Trump's administration from dismantling the Department of Education.
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A federal judge this afternoon says that President Trump and his administration
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cannot go ahead and shut down the Department of Education
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as President Trump signed in an executive order.
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President Trump says we've got to get the federal government out of education.
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The Department of Education has become a bloated bureaucracy
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that's more interested in pushing its own agenda than helping our kids learn.
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It's time to put the power back in the hands of the parents,
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the teachers, and the local school communities.
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who has a different opinion than President Trump, of course,
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a Biden appointee, issued an injunction blocking the administration
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from laying off Department of Education workers.
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This case arises out of an attempt by the defendants to shut down the department
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Just another unelected Marxist damn judge who's got a problem with the America First agenda.
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