Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 07/01/2025
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09:06 AM ET
Show Open:
- Will the “Big Beautiful Bill” survive another RINO attack?
- Republicans can afford to lose no more than three votes in either chamber to pass a bill the Democrats are united in opposition to.
- The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its assessment on Sunday of the bill’s hit to the $36.2 trillion US debt pile.
- The Senate version is estimated to cost $3.3 trillion, $800 billion more than the version passed last month in the House of Representatives.
- House Freedom Caucus threatens that they will not support Senate version of the “BBB.”
- RINO Senators want to provide Medicaid for illegals, the House Freedom Caucus demands more substantive cuts. (NY Post)
09:20
Segment Topic:
- The Senate, during a vote-a-rama on the One Big Beautiful Bill on Monday afternoon, failed to include a provision that would end illegal aliens from fraudulently receiving Medicaid benefits.
- One Republican, RINO Susan Collins of Maine, actually voted for illegal aliens to continue receiving Medicaid benefits!
- Four Democrats voted in favor of the Motion.
- Per Townhall, the vote to remove illegals from Medicaid failed by a margin of 56-44.
- Removing illegals from Medicaid benefits was one of the key provisions in the bill that the unelected Senate Parliamentarian rejected by applying the “Byrd Rule.”
- This causes these provisions to require 60 votes instead of a simple majority.
- This failed vote comes after RINO Thom Tillis, who announced he will not seek reelection after Trump slammed him in a statement, was railing on the Senate Floor against the bill’s cuts to Medicaid for illegal aliens, refugees, and asylum seekers. (The Gateway Pundit)
- Budget reconciliation, or just “reconciliation,” is a legislative maneuver that allows Congress to pass legislation with only 51 votes in the Senate. Normally, legislation requires 60 votes to pass the Senate.
- But since reconciliation bills can’t be filibustered, jamming through major legislation using reconciliation is a tool that both Republicans and Democrats have used to pass legislation when faced with slim majorities.
- The reconciliation process comes with some extra strings attached in the Senate. Since reconciliation was originally supposed to be used to reduce the deficit, the rule is that only provisions directly impacting government spending or taxes can be passed through reconciliation. This means anything going through reconciliation has to directly impact the federal budget—and if it doesn’t, then the Senate can’t pass it through reconciliation.
- This rule is called the Byrd rule, after Senator Robert Byrd, a Senator from West Virginia who was its principal sponsor. The Byrd rule has been law since 1990, and has been used successfully dozens of times to block so-called “extraneous” (unrelated) provisions that shouldn’t get passed through reconciliation
- The most debatable of the Byrd rule criteria is whether a provision has a budgetary effect that is “merely incidental.” The Byrd rule gives considerable discretion to the Senate’s Parliamentarian who tells the Presiding Officer how to rule on a point of order—whichever Senator (from the majority party) is in charge of running Senate business that day — to decide what is “merely incidental.” (Indivisible.org)
Panelist:
DIAL Producers / Callers
09:35
Monologue:
“Happy Anniversary”
9:50
Segment Topic:
- First YNTA Monologue predicted that Joe Biden would drop out (three weeks prior to his dropping out).
- This first (YNTA) Monologue also provided an insight into who was actually running the White House (Dr. Jill Biden).
- Jill advisor Anthony Bernal is refusing to testify before congress on the Auto-Pen scandal.
- Rebroadcast YNTA Monologue 7/1/24: “Drip, Drip, Drip.”
Panelist:
DIAL Producers/callers
10:08
Segment Topic:
- Trump threatens to unleash DOGE on Musk to save money tied to his numerous gov’t subsidies: ‘Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history.’ What is going on here?
- President Trump threatened to unleash Elon Musk’s brainchild, DOGE, against him to investigate his company’s government subsidies — warning his former ally that he may have “to close up shop and head back home to South Africa.”
- “Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate,” the president posted on Truth Social early Tuesday.
- “It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one.” (NY Post)
- Philip Low, a former friend of Elon Musk, claimed in an interview on Monday that Musk would do everything he could to damage President Donald Trump, Politico reported.
- "I’ve had my share of blowouts with Elon over the years," Low told Politico. "Knowing Elon the way I know him, I do think he’s going to do everything to damage the president."
- Musk has spoken out against the GOP's "one big, beautiful bill," calling it "a disgusting abomination" in a June 3 post to X. (Politico/Fox News)
- Does Eric Adams running for reelection (as an independent) against socialist Mamdani have a chance?
- What about a coalition candidacy (Adams for Mayor – Curtis Sliwa for Deputy Mayor)?
- 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!
Panelist:
Dennis Kneale, author of The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk. Veteran business journalist Dennis Kneale chronicles Musk’s extraordinary journey, presenting him as a beacon of inspiration. Musk’s unparalleled success as an innovator and entrepreneur is not just a testament to his genius, but a playbook for those daring to dream big.
10:36
Segment Topic:
- The latest on the “Big Beautiful Bill:”
- House Freedom Caucus Chair: Dr. Andy Harris (MD/1) discusses Conservative opposition to the Senate version.
- Rebroadcast of Congressman Harris with Mike Bradley earlier today.
- Why does any Republican support Medicaid (free healthcare) for illegals?
- Healthcare for illegals does fall under the category of; waste, fraud and abuse!
Panelist:
Congressman, Dr. Andy Harris (rebroadcast from earlier today).
11:08
Segment Topic:
- Coward Bryan Kohberger cops a plea to save him from facing a firing squad.
- The sister of one of the four University of Idaho students slain in their off-campus home blasted the “shocking and cruel” plea deal that will spare the life of accused killer Brian Kohberger.
- Aubrie Goncalves, 18, voiced her outrage over the deal in which Kohberger will cop to killing her sister Kaylee Goncalves and three others, in a lengthy statement posted on Facebook.
- “The introduction of this plea deal, just weeks before the scheduled trial, is both shocking and cruel,” Aubrie wrote.
- “We’ve had faith in the system. But at this point, it is impossible not to acknowledge the truth: the system has failed these four innocent victims and their families,” she continued. (NY Post)
- State prosecutors reportedly sent a letter to the families of the murdered students informing them of the deal that will let Kohberger dodge the death penalty – provided he admits to breaking into a student rental and butchering four University of Idaho undergrads in 2022.
Panelist:
DIAL Producers/callers
11:35
Segment Topic:
This segment left open for late breaking news!
Panelist:
DIAL Producers/callers
11:50
Salute the Troops:
Captain Frederick Smith: USMC Ret.
Died June 21, 2025
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