Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 06/30/2025
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09:06 AM ET
Show Open:
- Was the ambush of first responders in Northern Idaho a terrorist attack? We are already hearing “LONE WOLF” prior to any investigation?
- Continued attacks on first responders falls at the feet of the Democrat Communists. Their disdain for all first responders is on display daily.
- What are first responders thinking today?
- Will Fire Departments require police departments clear a location first, before they will respond to a fire?
9:20
Segment Topic:
Whose Canada’s daddy?
- Friday Canada announced a tax on U.S. Tech companies;
- Friday, President Trump announces he is immediately suspending all trade negotiations with Canada;
- Sunday, Canada suspends the implementation on the tax to enable negotiations to continue.
- Winning!
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9:35
Monologue:
“Winning”
10:10
Segment Topic:
- Friday’s SCOTUS Decision limiting Federal, District Court Judges power:
- Professor Allan Dershowitz comments!
- Trump’s entire first term, there were 64 injunctions (correction from Friday).
- So far, Trump’s second-term, there are 40!
- Dershowitz describes the war against anyone who defends Trump – even targeting his grandchildren.
- His new book, The Preventive State (55th or 56th book?), Professor Dershowitz addresses the preventive measures that would be constitutionally authorized to prevent a likely disaster based on intel that’s reliable but uncertain.
- Strict constitution or legislative solutions?
- Many of you are asking questions daily on what we can do to remain constitutional and yet save the country?
This important book offers unprecedented insights into one of the most underexamined developments of our age: the growing magnitude and frequency of cataclysmic threats, coupled with the increasingly effective—but increasingly intrusive—tools intended to predict and prevent them.
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10:33
Segment Topic:
- The “Big Beautiful Bill”
- Do you support the “Big Beautiful Bill”?
(Courtesy NY Post):
- Both versions will make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent, reduce taxes on tips and overtime, increase border security funding and slash green-energy tax credits passed during the Biden administration — including the $7,500 credit for buying Tesla and other EVs.
- The marquee legislation will require the Senate and House to reconcile their versions before the bill can be fully approved and go to President Trump for his signature.
Tax cuts
- Both versions of the bill include a number of Trump’s promised tax incentives — some $3.8 trillion in tax cuts in all — but differ slightly when it comes to raw numbers.
- The Senate version would allow Americans to deduct as much as $12,500 for overtime pay and up to $25,000 in tip income through 2028 — reductions that would drop for those making $150,000 or more. The House version didn’t put limits on the deductions.
- The child tax credit would jump from $2,000 to $2,200 per child under the Senate bill, and adjust for inflation after this year. The House version, however, would raise the credit to $2,500 temporarily before lowering it back to $2,000 and adjusting it for inflation.
- One of the most significant differences in the Senate bill is a provision to permanently expand the standard deduction. The House version would only see it expanded through 2028.
- Senate lawmakers also raised a tax break for seniors to $6,000 through 2028, whereas in the House bill that figure is $4,000.
Raising the debt ceiling
- The Senate’s version of the bill would raise the US debt limit by $5 trillion, 20% higher than the House’s proposal of $4 trillion.
- The higher the debt ceiling, the longer Congress can go without having yet another politically fraught debate about the national debt and government spending.
- If the Big Beautiful Bill isn’t passed, the federal government is set to run out of borrowing authority in August or September.
Cuts to food stamps spending
- The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — food stamps or SNAP — subsidizes food for some 40 million low-income Americans. Both the Senate and House versions would cut what the US government spends on the program.
- The Senate bill would require “able-bodied adults” to continue working up to age 64, with some exemptions carved out for parents with children under age 14. However, states would be limited in how they can waive the requirements.
- The House version would require adults, including those with children age six or older, to work in order to qualify for benefits.
- States would also be required to kick in more of the cost to provide food aid. The changes to the program would take effect in 2028.
State and Local Tax Deduction (SALT)
- One of the most closely watched provisions of the Big Beautiful Bill Act in the New York City area been the SALT deduction — which caps the amount of state and local taxes taxpayers can write off on their federal income tax returns.
- The amount is currently capped at $10,000, after Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, but both versions of the bill would boost that to $40,000 for married couples making up to $500,000 per year.
- However, in the version advanced by the Senate, the cap would increase through 2029 then return to $10,000, while the House version would make the increased cap permanent.
Medicaid
- Another highly contentious aspect of the legislation has been proposed changes to Medicaid, which provides health services to low-income, disabled and elderly Americans.
- Under the House version, able-bodied, childless adults would be required to work 80 hours per month to qualify. The Senate bill widens this requirement to include adults with children age 15 or older.
- The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the House-passed package will add $2.4 trillion to the US’ deficit over the next decade. It’s still analyzing the expected impact of the Senate version, however.
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11:08
Segment Topic:
- Should Zohran Mamdani keep his mouth shut?
- Higher NYC property taxes for white neighborhoods?
- Dem-Com Mayoral candidate hates millionaires and billionaires (who dies he think pays most of the taxes in NYC)?
- Is he NYC’s Beto O’Rourke?
- Is the problem he is a Muslim or he is a committed Communist?
- Mamdani goes on Dem-Com friendly “Meet the Press” and refuses to reject intifada!
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11:20
Segment Topic:
- Can a coalition candidacy between Eric Adams (Democrat) and Curtis Sliwa (Republican) stop Mamdani candidacy in its tracks?
- NYPD unions are already announcing the intentions of their rank and file to bail out if Mamdani wins!
- John Tobacco on YNTA 6-26-25
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11:33
Segment Topic:
Segment left open for late-breaking news!
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11:50
Salute the Troops:
Medal of Honor Recipient: Raymond Gilbert Davis
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