31 JULY 2025: Bad News on Interest Rates, Good News on Chocolate // Trump Racks up Wins With Universities // Sneak Plan To Change the US Census — And GOP Power // Listener Q&A: Burn Bags and the Deep State
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he dives into today's top stories shaping America and the world. In today's episode, we cover
Fed Holds Rates Steady While Economy Softens
The Federal Reserve declines to cut interest rates despite signs of economic slowing and contained inflation. Two Fed governors dissent, a rare move that highlights internal disagreement. Bryan explains why many see this as a political misstep and calls for revisiting the Fed's structure altogether.
Good News on GDP and Grocery Prices
The economy grew at 3 percent in Q2, partly due to consumers racing to buy before expected tariff hikes. Meanwhile, exemptions for cocoa, coffee, and orange juice under new U.S. tariff rules are welcome news for households and major exporters like Brazil and Vietnam.
Trump's Crackdown Reshapes Higher Ed
Brown University gives in to Trump's demands to fix DEI policies and receives restored federal funds. Harvard faces investigations and fines over employment practices. Duke, Columbia, Cornell, and others are all in the spotlight as the White House uses financial leverage to reform campus culture.
2026 and 2028 Election Maps Could Be Redrawn
Texas and Florida prepare new congressional maps that could flip up to 10 House seats to Republicans. Democrats plot resistance, but a proposed early census counting only U.S. citizens could shift even more seats and electoral votes away from Democrat strongholds.
Listener Questions: Burn Bags and Brennan's Claims
Bryan answers a question about FBI burn bags and whether they signal cover-ups. He also dissects a new op-ed by former Obama officials John Brennan and James Clapper, breaking down why their defense of the Trump-Russia investigation falls apart under scrutiny.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
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| 0:00.0 | It's July 31st. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:12.3 | Hey, good day to you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to The Right Report, Your Daily News, podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | I've got four briefs for you this morning that are shaping America and the world. |
| 0:27.0 | First up yesterday was a day of economic ups and downs. |
| 0:30.4 | With some good news, though, for your pocketbooks, if you like to buy orange juice or coffee or chocolate, |
| 0:35.4 | but not so much on the interest rate front. |
| 0:38.0 | I'll explain all of that coming up. |
| 0:40.1 | Second, President Trump's war on radicalized colleges and universities continues on this morning |
| 0:45.0 | with more victories for the White House as schools are changing their cultures trying |
| 0:49.2 | to claw back federal funds. |
| 0:51.5 | Third, the race to control Congress and the presidency are heating up with some big |
| 0:55.5 | changes this morning from Texas, Florida, and California that depending on how things go, |
| 1:00.7 | could really decimate the Democrat Party. We'll cover how. Fourth, we've got some listener |
| 1:05.3 | questions today, haven't done this in a while. One is about Obama's CIA and NSA directors. |
| 1:12.3 | They put out an op-ed in the New York Times claiming that they are completely innocent of any deep state shenanigans, contrary to what |
| 1:17.3 | the Trump administration is saying. Also, we've got a question this morning about the discovery |
| 1:22.1 | of some secret burnbags at the FBI with apparently some top secret intel inside. We'll touch on those great questions |
| 1:29.5 | coming up. But first, let's get to our top stories of the morning. Yesterday had some good news, |
| 1:35.3 | some bad news, and actually some great news if you like to buy orange juice or coffee or chocolate. |
| 1:41.3 | But then again, not so much good news if you want to apply for a mortgage or |
| 1:44.9 | pay down your high interest rate credit card, and that is where we are going to start. As |
| 1:49.6 | expected, the Federal Reserve kept interest rates right where they have been for a long while now. |
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