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CNN Sparks Outrage Over ICE App, Inside the Boldest Tax Bill in U.S. History & Trump Eyes Fed Shake-Up · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: But I never want to hurt our farmers. Our farmers
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  Speaker 1: are great people.
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  Speaker 2: They keep us happy and healthy. In fact, you're listening
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  Speaker 2: to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Saturday morning to you, Ben Ferguson with you, and
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  Speaker 3: these are some of the stories that you may have
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  Speaker 3: missed that we talked about this week on the forty
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  Speaker 3: seven Morning Update. First up, in a shocking move, a
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  Speaker 3: major TV network is now helping warn individuals where ICE
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  Speaker 3: agents are so that they can get away from being
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  Speaker 3: held accountable for breaking our laws. Who's doing it? We'll
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  Speaker 3: expose that coming up as well. Also, what made it
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  Speaker 3: into the bill that is now headed back to the
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  Speaker 3: House from the Senate. I break it all down for
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  Speaker 3: you and I'll have all those details for you about
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  Speaker 3: exactly what made it in this bill in just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: And finally, we also now know that the President saying
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  Speaker 3: it's time for the FED chair Jerome Powell to be
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  Speaker 3: gone to resign, and he's got two or three choices
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  Speaker 3: to replace the FED chairman, which could save Americans literally
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  Speaker 3: trillions of dollars in interests. I'll give you those details
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  Speaker 3: in a moment. It's the forty seven morning update and
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  Speaker 3: it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: The media yet again putting ICE agents lives at risk,
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  Speaker 3: this time CNN featuring a segment on ice Block. It
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  Speaker 3: is an app that lets users anonymously crowd source ICE
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  Speaker 3: agents sidings across a mapp and send alerts to others
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  Speaker 3: within a five mile radius. Now, the app's creator framed
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  Speaker 3: as a quote harmless early warning system to help people
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  Speaker 3: avoid ICE, not to incite violence against the agents. Ice
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  Speaker 3: Block enforces constraints, they claim as well, one post every
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  Speaker 3: five minutes, auto deletion after four hours, and explicitly recommends
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  Speaker 3: users not interfere with officers. That's their get out a
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  Speaker 3: jail free card. Apparently. The White House Press Secretary Caroline
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  Speaker 3: Levitt accusing CNN of encouraging violence by publicizing the app,
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  Speaker 3: especially amid a reported five hundred percent surge in assaults
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  Speaker 3: on ICE agents nationwide. The acting ICE Director called CNN's
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  Speaker 3: coverage quote reckless and irresponsible, warning that it paints a
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  Speaker 3: target on federal law enforcement officers. Backs and Tom Homan,
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  Speaker 3: the former ICE Director, and the current borders are branded
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  Speaker 3: the app is simply disgusting, and urge the DOJ to
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  Speaker 3: investigate CNN's role in all of this. I want you
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  Speaker 3: to hear more of what Tom Holman had to say
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  Speaker 3: on Fox News Channel about this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this next story is outrageous. A new iPhone app
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  Speaker 1: is a learning people about ice sightings in their area.
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  Speaker 1: As if that's not bad enough, CNN it appears to
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  Speaker 1: be promoting the app, talking to the creator and doing
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  Speaker 1: a whole story on him that is not sitting well
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  Speaker 1: with my name borders our time home and joins me. Now, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: they've crossed the line here. This is out of control.
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  Speaker 4: I know. It's just simply disgusting, and any network that
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  Speaker 4: covers that is disgusting as well. So I'm hoping DOJ
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  Speaker 4: steps in here and see if they cross side line
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  Speaker 4: and I'm impeding federal law enforcement ofshiers. Look, Lawrence, you're
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  Speaker 4: not talking about this pasult again. SIS is up over
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  Speaker 4: five percent. Now you've got an app that's going to
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  Speaker 4: tell where ice operators are going to be. It's only
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  Speaker 4: a matter of time where ice ages are ambushed by
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  Speaker 4: some nut like we're happening in LA throwing them out
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  Speaker 4: top cocktail, throwing bricks, and these officers, this is just
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  Speaker 4: this is just disgusting at every level. So I hope
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  Speaker 4: DOJ dives in this deeply because you know, Ice is
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  Speaker 4: constant on public safety threats and national security threads. This
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  Speaker 4: shouldn't be a partisan issue. There shouldn't be an issue
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  Speaker 4: anybody's is against. So they're already a dangerous jibe going
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  Speaker 4: after the worst and worst. These guys are putting their
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  Speaker 4: lives on the line every day, going after the worst
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  Speaker 4: and worst internationalecurity threat, and this app makes it that
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  Speaker 4: much more dangerous. It's it's incredible that those who force law,
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  Speaker 4: all of a sudden, they're the bad guys you wanted
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  Speaker 4: to break the law. They're victims. It's disgusting. Why was
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  Speaker 4: seeing INN promote this? Why would they do a story
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  Speaker 4: on this? I can't figure it out. I've look I've
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  Speaker 4: been doing this for four decades. I've never seen anything
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  Speaker 4: like this in my life. You know, it's got to
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  Speaker 4: be they hate Trump more than love law enforcement or
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  Speaker 4: I can't figure it out, but something needs to be done.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you advertise this guy's app on a national
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  Speaker 4: TV network, This is going to bring more followers, sick
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  Speaker 4: followers to the app and use it again, letting the
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  Speaker 4: bad guy no Ice is coming. They're here. Here's where
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  Speaker 4: they're going next. This is dangerous for the men and
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  Speaker 4: women law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: So true, Tom, I want to.
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  Speaker 3: Get Tom Homan clearly slamming CNN for promoting the ice
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  Speaker 3: tracking app and now is saying maybe it's time for
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  Speaker 3: law enforcement, the DOJ to step in here and see
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  Speaker 3: if they cross the line impeding federal law enforcement officers
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  Speaker 3: yet again, another example of how the Left is doing
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  Speaker 3: everything they can to protect to legal immigrants and put
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  Speaker 3: American lives at risk.
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  Speaker 2: Next story number two.
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  Speaker 3: Now you may be asking yourself what is actually in
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  Speaker 3: this bill that has left the Senate. Let me give
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  Speaker 3: you that list because it's an important one. Number one,
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  Speaker 3: this bill delivers the largest tax cut in history of
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  Speaker 3: the United States of America for middle and working class Americans.
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  Speaker 3: Bigger paychecks of ten thousand dollars more in annual take
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  Speaker 3: home pay for families as well, a massive campaign idea
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  Speaker 3: is now reality. No tax on tips, which will expand
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  Speaker 3: middle class America like we've never seen before. We also
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  Speaker 3: are going to reward people that work hard with no
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  Speaker 3: tax on overtime, incentivizing people to work more to get ahead,
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  Speaker 3: and something that should have happened a long time ago.
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  Speaker 3: No tax on social Security, giving more security to seniors,
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  Speaker 3: especially when cost of living has skyrocketed. We also have
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  Speaker 3: no tax on made and America auto loans. Let me
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  Speaker 3: say that again, no tax on made in America auto loans,
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  Speaker 3: which will help prop up American made automobiles and incentivize
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  Speaker 3: Americans to look at America first. It will also help
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  Speaker 3: with massive amounts of manufacturing jobs, keeping Americans working in manufacturing.
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  Speaker 3: It also protects two million family farms from punitive double taxation,
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  Speaker 3: something that's been a huge problem in this country. Permanent
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  Speaker 3: increases to the child tax credit. Let me say that again,
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  Speaker 3: permanent increases to the child tax credit, supporting over forty
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  Speaker 3: million American families. Also, a vote against this bill is
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  Speaker 3: a vote for the largest tax increase in history, something
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  Speaker 3: that Republicans did a very good job of selling to
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  Speaker 3: the American people. It also, in this bill rescinded billions
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  Speaker 3: in green news scam funding, which Doge and the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration had exposed in the last several months. It restores
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  Speaker 3: fiscal sanity, slashing deficits by roughly two trillion dollars. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: there are many in the House that want more than that,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll have to see what happens moving forward. We
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  Speaker 3: also know that this bill eliminated waste, fraud, and abuse
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  Speaker 3: from the bloated federal programs that we have now been
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  Speaker 3: exposing through DOGE and permanently securing our southern and northern borders,
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  Speaker 3: something the President said needed to be in this bill.
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  Speaker 3: We also know that this bill deports at least one
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  Speaker 3: million illegal aliens a year. Yes, that is also in
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  Speaker 3: the bill, and it makes the largest investment in border
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  Speaker 3: security in an entire generation, providing nearly one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty billion to secure our border and also to deport
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  Speaker 3: illegal aliens, which the American people voted for. The bill
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  Speaker 3: also includes finishing Phase two of the border wall, something
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump campaigned on back all the way in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: and it shifts the cost of adjudication in the immigration
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  Speaker 3: system from the American taxpayer to the illegal aliens. We
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  Speaker 3: also know that we're hiring it because of this bill,
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  Speaker 3: hiring ten thousand new ice agents, more than five thousand
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  Speaker 3: customs officers, and more than three thousand new border patrol agents,
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  Speaker 3: yet again sending a message to the cartels and terrorists
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  Speaker 3: that you don't want to try to sneak in to
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  Speaker 3: the United States of America or ship your drugs into
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  Speaker 3: this country, because we're coming for you. There's also funds
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  Speaker 3: for the goal Golden Dome Missile Defense System to confront
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  Speaker 3: the twenty first century threats, something the President and the
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  Speaker 3: DoD talked about extensively with the American people. We know
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  Speaker 3: that we need to put America first when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to our national security, and that's exactly why the funds
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  Speaker 3: were included in this bill for the Golden Dome Missile
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  Speaker 3: Defense System. We also know the bill delivers the largest
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  Speaker 3: coast guard upgrade since World War Two. Why are we
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  Speaker 3: doing that? Because that's where the fetinyl is coming into
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  Speaker 3: this country and the criminal cartels are clearly exploiting our
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  Speaker 3: open seas. Now we will have the largest coastguard upgrade
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  Speaker 3: that we've had since World War Two, something that needed
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  Speaker 3: to happen decades ago. Finally, the bill modernized our military
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  Speaker 3: to ensure it has the resources to be ready and
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  Speaker 3: encourages a lethal fighting force after four years of weakness
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  Speaker 3: by the Biden administration. We follow behind China, but ninety longer.
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  Speaker 3: It also ends Biden's war on American energy and drives
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  Speaker 3: down energy costs, something that was important in this bill
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that we as a nation are in
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  Speaker 3: fact energy independent, something that the prior administration did everything
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  Speaker 3: they could to make sure that we were weak as
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  Speaker 3: a nation. And it also unleashes domestic oil, domestic gas,
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  Speaker 3: as well as nuclear power, restoring what made America great
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  Speaker 3: all along, the ability to function without relying on Middle
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  Speaker 3: Eastern countries or anyone else that's producing oil around the world,
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  Speaker 3: including places like Russia. So if you want to know
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  Speaker 3: what's in this America first, this big, this beautiful bill,
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  Speaker 3: well here's what's in it. Now it moves back to
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  Speaker 3: the House and hopefully it will be moving within days
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  Speaker 3: to the President's desk.
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  Speaker 2: And here is story number three.
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  Speaker 3: We also know this. The President is also moving on
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  Speaker 3: to other major issues. For example, Donald Trump is calling
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  Speaker 3: for the Fed Chair Powell to quit quote immediately. Trump
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  Speaker 3: is ramping up the pressure on Powell, urging lower interest
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  Speaker 3: rates against the Federal Reserve Chair's continued opposition the president
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  Speaker 3: making it clear that it's time for him to quote resign.
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  Speaker 3: In a true Social post on Wednesday in the late afternoon,
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  Speaker 3: Trump said too late, should resign immediately. He also linked
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  Speaker 3: to a Bloomberg story headline that says FED chair should
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  Speaker 3: be investigated by Congress. The FHSA head is now saying
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  Speaker 3: Powell was nominated by Trump to lead the FED during
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  Speaker 3: the first administration. Joe Biden, who succeeded Trump as President,
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  Speaker 3: nominated him for a second term. His tenure as the
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  Speaker 3: FED chair is set to end of twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 3: and Trump is ramping up pressure, saying I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to wait on Jerome Powell's tenure to end, issuing a
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  Speaker 3: call for lower interest rates against the Federal Reserve Chair
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  Speaker 3: and continued opposition and calling out the failure of the
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  Speaker 3: Fed's monetary policy. For instance, earlier this week, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: posted this, Jerome too late. Powell and his entire board
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  Speaker 3: should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen
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  Speaker 3: in the United States of America. They have one of
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  Speaker 3: the easiest yet most prestigious jobs in America, and they've failed,
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  Speaker 3: and they continue to do so, saying this, If they
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  Speaker 3: were doing their job properly, our country would be saving
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  Speaker 3: trillions of dollars in interest costs. The board just sits
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  Speaker 3: there and watches, so they are equally to blame. We
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  Speaker 3: should be paying one percent interest or better now The
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  Speaker 3: post preceded Trump's letter to Powell urging him to lower
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  Speaker 3: interest rates. The White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt told
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  Speaker 3: reporters on Monday. Pallis stated that the Fed's decision to
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  Speaker 3: hold off on dropping your interest rates owes much to
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  Speaker 3: concern about the possible impacts of quote tariffs on inflation
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  Speaker 3: that coming from CBS News Now reports say he's waiting
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  Speaker 3: to see how the Trump tearor policy quote plays out
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  Speaker 3: and what it ultimately does to the US economy before
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  Speaker 3: making interest rate adjustments. Powell has specifically said he wants
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  Speaker 3: to see longer term impacts, if any, on consumer pricing.
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  Speaker 3: So I tell you that story to just make it
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  Speaker 3: very clear there could be some big changes coming very soon.
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  Speaker 3: But it also tells you about the confidence that the
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  Speaker 3: President has that by the time many of you hear this,
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  Speaker 3: he will already have the biggest tax cut that we've
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  Speaker 3: seen in our lifetime and turn it into a reality.
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  Speaker 3: So what does that mean moving forward, Well, it means
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  Speaker 3: we could see some pretty big changes here. The President
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  Speaker 3: even moving forward to say there are quote two or
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  Speaker 3: three choices to replace the FED chairman and saying on Tuesday, yes,
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready to go. When asked to board Air Force
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  Speaker 3: one whether he has a top choice to succeed your
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  Speaker 3: own Powell, Trump said exactly this, I have two or
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  Speaker 3: three top choices. He declined to give any further information,
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  Speaker 3: yet again showing how much Donald Trump's ready to move on.
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  Speaker 3: We also know that The Wall Street Journal reported last
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  Speaker 3: week that Trump is considering the former FED Governor Kevin
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  Speaker 3: Walsh and National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett as replacements. Also,
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  Speaker 3: Treasury Secretary of Scott descent is also being pitched as
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  Speaker 3: a potential candidate that according to The Wall Street Journal, which
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  Speaker 3: also listed former World Bank President and FED Governor Christopher
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  Speaker 3: Waller as potential nominees. Now courting the Wall Street Journal,
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  Speaker 3: Trump is toyed with the idea of selecting and announcing
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  Speaker 3: a replacement as early as September or October. However, the
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  Speaker 3: sent told Bloomberg TV on Monday that the Trump administration
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  Speaker 3: is considering using the next expected Federal Reserve Border governor's
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  Speaker 3: vacancy in early twenty twenty six to appoint a successor.
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  Speaker 3: Now since returned to the White House in January, Trump
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  Speaker 3: has criticized Powell, as well as other Fed governors for
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  Speaker 3: declining not to lower interest rates, which are currently in
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  Speaker 3: the four point twenty five to four point five zero range.
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  Speaker 3: FED chairs have long seen as insulated from presidential dismissal
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  Speaker 3: for reasons other than malfeasan's or misconduct. That Trump is
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  Speaker 3: threatened to test the legal premise with frequent threats to
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  Speaker 3: fire Jerome Powell now Supreme Court ruling in May by
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  Speaker 3: the way, he's concerns that Trump could fire Powell, as
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  Speaker 3: the Justice called the FED quote a uniquely structured quasi
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  Speaker 3: private entity. So that leaves us at this point where
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  Speaker 3: the president's clearly saying he believes Jerome Power on this
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  Speaker 3: board are the wrong people for the job, and he
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  Speaker 3: wants to move as quickly as possible to move the
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  Speaker 3: country in the right direction. He also has made it
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  Speaker 3: clear that lower interest rates save you countless dollars in interests,
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  Speaker 3: something that's good he believes for the economy. So if
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  Speaker 3: you want to know what's happening right now at the
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  Speaker 3: White House, it's pretty clear the present's getting ready for
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  Speaker 3: a very big Fourth of July celebration, and it's one
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  Speaker 3: that is going to give you a huge advantage in
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  Speaker 3: your pocket book and He's not done there. He's also
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  Speaker 3: now looking to lower interest rates for you as well,
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  Speaker 3: and that is exactly what the America First Agenda that
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump promised you looks like as we go into
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  Speaker 3: the fourth of July.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
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