Mid-Day Update: October 29, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including the recent Senate vote to repeal President Trump's tariffs on Brazil, a federal judge's ruling that restricts the President's ability to fire federal workers during the Schumer shutdown, President Trump's recent honor from South Korea and the investigations led by Special Counsel Jack Smith against MAGA leaders.
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| 0:11.4 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm John Fawson with this Great America show Midday Update for Wednesday, October 29th. |
| 0:17.3 | The rhinos in the Senate have done it again. |
| 0:19.9 | The Senate this week voting 52 to 48 to nuke President Trump's 50% tariff on Brazil. |
| 0:26.1 | House Speaker Mike Johnson will not hold a vote on the measure. |
| 0:29.2 | So the U.S. Senate's vote was just a waste of time, just allowing them to show their true colors and who they really are. |
| 0:35.5 | Of course, President Trump would never sign the measure into law anyway, but five |
| 0:39.5 | ran on Republicans voted with the Democrats to repeal the tariffs on incoming materials. |
| 0:45.2 | You could probably guess who a few of them are, but some surprising ones, I guess. |
| 0:49.4 | I guess it's never a surprise. |
| 0:51.6 | Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Tom Tillis |
| 0:57.6 | in North Carolina. |
| 0:59.1 | And the last one, Rand Paul of Kentucky, a man who's been making a total fool of himself |
| 1:03.8 | lately. |
| 1:04.5 | Earlier this year, the Senate, led by the rhinos, voted to nuke President Trump's Canadian |
| 1:10.1 | tariffs, Rhinos Murkowski, Collins, McConnell, and Rand Paul voted to nuke president trump's canadian tariffs rhinos morkowski collins beconnell |
| 1:12.4 | and rann paul voted to repeal those as well president trump is curling the supreme court |
| 1:17.1 | fighting to keep his tariffs in place after a court said that trump exceeded his authority |
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