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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🗓️ 5 July 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
🔍 1. ICE Tracking App Controversy
- Topic: A segment criticizing CNN for covering an app called Ice Block, which allows users to report and share ICE agent sightings.
- Concerns Raised:
- The app is seen by critics as endangering ICE agents.
- Former ICE Director Tom Homan and others accuse CNN of promoting violence against federal officers.
- The app is described as “disgusting” and potentially illegal, with calls for DOJ investigation.
💰 2. Major Tax and Immigration Bill
- Overview: A detailed rundown of a new bill passed by the Senate, described as a major win for the “America First” agenda.
- Key Provisions:
- Largest tax cut in U.S. history for middle and working-class Americans.
- No tax on tips, overtime, Social Security, or American-made auto loans.
- Permanent increase to the child tax credit.
- Massive investment in border security and immigration enforcement:
- Deportation of at least 1 million illegal immigrants annually.
- Hiring of thousands of ICE, Customs, and Border Patrol agents.
- Completion of Phase 2 of the border wall.
- Cuts to green energy funding and federal program waste.
- Military modernization and Coast Guard upgrades.
- Emphasis on energy independence through domestic oil, gas, and nuclear power.
📉 3. Trump vs. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
- Conflict: Trump is calling for Powell’s resignation, criticizing the Fed’s refusal to lower interest rates.
- Claims:
- Trump blames Powell for high interest costs and economic stagnation.
- He suggests replacing Powell with one of several potential candidates.
- Trump is reportedly considering announcing a successor before Powell’s term ends in 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:11.6 | You're listening to the 47 morning update with Ben Ferguson. |
| 0:15.7 | Good Saturday morning to you. |
| 0:17.1 | Ben Ferguson with you. |
| 0:18.4 | And these are some of the stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week on the 47 morning update. First up, in a shocking move, a major TV |
| 0:27.5 | network is now helping warn individuals where ICE agents are so that they can get away from being |
| 0:35.9 | held accountable for breaking our laws. |
| 0:38.8 | Who's doing it? |
| 0:39.8 | We'll expose that coming up as well. |
| 0:42.3 | Also, what made it into the bill that is now headed back to the House from the Senate? |
| 0:47.8 | I break it all down for you. |
| 0:50.0 | And I'll have all those details for you about exactly what made it in this bill in just a moment. |
| 0:55.5 | And finally, we also now know that the president's saying it's time for the Fed chair, Jerome Powell, to be gone to resign. |
| 1:03.2 | And he's got two or three choices to replace the Fed chairman, which could save Americans literally trillions of dollars in interest. |
| 1:12.2 | I'll give you those details in a moment. |
| 1:14.4 | It's the 47 morning update, and it starts right now. |
| 1:18.1 | Story number one. |
| 1:19.3 | The media yet again putting ICE agents lives at risk. |
| 1:23.9 | This time, CNN, featuring a segment on Ice Block, it is an app that lets users anonymously crowdsource ICE agents, |
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