Mid-Day Update: November 13, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including the government shutdown officially ends, President Trump's comments on the filibuster, and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan's latest inquiry.
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| 0:44.7 | Hello everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Thursday, November 13th. Happy Thursday, folks. Well, the longest government shutdown in the history of this country is finally over. |
| 0:51.4 | President Trump announcing last night from the Oval Office while he signed that bill to reopen |
| 0:55.0 | the government just past 10 o'clock Eastern time. President Trump calling out the Marxist Dems |
| 1:00.8 | for trying to extort the American people for one and a half trillion dollars to fund the illegal |
| 1:06.6 | aliens. Take a listen. The United States in an attempt to extort American taxpayers for hundreds of billions of |
| 1:13.7 | dollars for illegal aliens and people that came into our country illegally from gangs, |
| 1:20.6 | from prisons, from mental institutions, they wanted to pay them $1.5 trillion, which would |
| 1:26.3 | have really hurt our health care businesses and our recipients |
| 1:31.2 | at levels never seen before. Today we're sending a clear message that we will never give |
| 1:37.4 | into extortion, because that's what it was. They tried to extort. The Democrats tried to extort |
| 1:42.9 | our country. In just a moment, I'll sign a bill exactly like we asked Democrats to send us all along many days ago. |
| 1:52.0 | This cost the country $1.5 trillion, this little excursion that they took us on. |
| 1:58.0 | To call it an excursion, I think, is to put it nicely. |
| 2:00.0 | What the Democrats did was just a disgrace and disjustice to America and all of our government workers who make this country run every single day and make this country great and make this country safe. The Marxist Democrats didn't care about them. They cared about playing politics and they cared about stopping Donald Trump at any cost. |
| 2:18.7 | It didn't matter. |
| 2:19.4 | Who died? |
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