Marty Makary OUT at HHS: MAHA Dead? Trump & Co Off To China, And Messy Massie Primary
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
Marty Makary is out at HHS. Is MAHA dead? Meanwhile, troubling new economic data points to rising anxiety among young Americans. And finally, Trump heads to China alongside some of the world’s most powerful CEOs. All this and more on the LOOPcast!
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00:00 Welcome to the LOOPcast
04:55 Makary is OUT
36:07 Economy
1:07:30 Good News
1:19:05 China Visit
1:29:32 Twilight Zone
2:05:13 Closing Prayer
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Daily Prayer for America 250
By Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, King of Heaven and Earth,
I place today my nation, the United States of America,
into Your Heart pierced for love of us.
On the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,
I acknowledge that true liberty is Your gift,
and that our lasting homeland is the eternal Kingdom of God.
Under the mantle of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas,
and through the intercession of her Immaculate Heart,
bless my homeland anew,
purify her from sin,
and guide her leaders in truth, justice, and peace,
so that she may safeguard all human life,
respect the integrity of marriage and the family,
and honor the practice of religion.
Reign in my home and in my nation.
Draw every heart into communion with You,
that Your truth, love, justice, mercy, and peace may triumph
in America and throughout the world.
Amen.
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. Welcome back to the Loopcast. It's Tom Erica and Josh. We have a great show prepared for you today. |
| 0:05.8 | It's funny. |
| 0:06.1 | I see we got Tom Kidd in the chat, who I know is a big Massey fan, |
| 0:08.9 | so he probably tuned in a little bit extra to hear. |
| 0:10.7 | I got that at the end of the show. |
| 0:11.8 | Don't worry. |
| 0:12.2 | We have a messy primary there. |
| 0:13.4 | But today we will be covering. |
| 0:15.4 | Marty McCarrey is out at HHS. |
| 0:17.6 | Split decisions on whether he was, I don't know, the Pan Bondi holding up progress or he was the one that was actually trying to make progress. We have some good insight from Tom McCluskey, Erica went and took a look at that. Josh has actually met Marty McCrary personally. So we have some interesting context to add there. In B Block, we had a lot of information about the economy drop. We had the labor report come out a couple days ago, I think, on the 13th. And then as of recent, we got a CPI report on inflation. So I promise it's not boring. There's a lot of really interesting under the surface, maybe warning signs in there for the future. We'll put it that way. And then the boys are off to China. Is this the end |
| 0:22.7 | of the China Hawks? I don't know, but I have seen some of the funniest memes possible about |
| 0:54.9 | smoking cigarettes in a wet market with Trump and Xi and... |
| 1:00.1 | Are we eating that to the wet market? |
| 1:04.8 | So that's where we are. But good news, Twilight Zone always. And then I'll just say before we get up top, because it was dominating the chat last episode. And I've gotten emails. I promise that I'm seeing them. We switched to a new service, so I'm having a tough time responding. So we shifted the show to one time a week. I know that that disappointed. Many of you. We did this prudentially. It was not, you know, a rash decision. We took a lot of things into account. We have a lot of different roles here at Catholic vote, and we have a very lean team. So in order for us to be effective and what we're being asked to do, we were asked to go down to one time a week. We were all on board with that. We're all being team players here. And so it's not like we're doing it despite you or because we want to do a worse job. We're doing it because we feel that we have to at this point. Now, if someone wanted to pony up with a lot of cash to get us to go three times a week, we're here to accept it. We welcome donations. You know, we welcome donations. But that is the situation right now, and I promise there's no sincere |
| 1:08.2 | subplot to keep the loopcast from you. I just really want to be authentic and sincere. And then to |
| 2:02.8 | remind people as well, we are three people that are Catholic, that love our faith, love our family, |
| 2:08.5 | and love our country. We don't always agree. We have very opinions on how to |
| 2:14.2 | get there. Some maybe are coming to the surface as of lately, but I promise they're from an authentic |
| 2:17.9 | and sincere place. And I just want to get that across everyone so that we don't have more |
| 2:22.3 | time in the chat about that. Josh, so you got something? Well, yeah. I mean, so obviously you've got |
| 2:27.8 | Tom Across America and Erica's got the deep. And so now they got me busy working on a new thing where we take the morning loopcast. |
| 2:31.8 | We take just a real quick video hit in the morning and let people know what's going on. |
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