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The Great America Show

Monday Update: June 30, 2025

The Great America Show

Dobbs Media Group

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

John Fawcett breaks down today's top stories, including Senator Thom Tillis's unexpected retirement announcement and the ongoing investigation into Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for employing illegal aliens on her staff. 

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawser with this Great America Show Midday Update from Monday, June 30th.

0:05.0

Happy Monday, folks. It's almost July. It didn't take long after Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina,

0:11.5

who happens to be a Rhino, announced his retirement from the Senate over the weekend for his mask to come off.

0:18.0

Just hours after revealing, he won't seek re-election for the North Carolina

0:21.3

senatorship, took to the Senate floor and unleashed a scathing tirade against President Trump's

0:26.7

signature, big beautiful bill, also known as the BBB, which we all know is a sweeping America

0:32.2

first legislative package aimed at slashing wasteful spending and ending taxpayer-funded handouts to illegals.

0:40.2

One key provision of the bill defunding Medicaid for illegal aliens, refugees, and asylum

0:45.5

seekers.

0:47.2

Why would Tom Tillis be against it?

0:49.3

Why is it too much for him?

0:51.3

Tillis tried to justify his no vote by touting his past life in, quote, management

0:55.9

consulting and his old speaker days in North Carolina. Tillus cried and whined that the bill's

1:01.3

Medicaid reforms would, quote, hurt North Carolina by cutting billions in provider taxes.

1:07.0

His brazen claim that Trump would, quote, break his promise to Medicaid recipients,

1:11.3

comparing Trump's reforms to Obama's infamous lie, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

1:17.2

Tillis has absolutely lost his mind, went on the Senate floor, and lied and lied and lied.

1:24.0

If this were the case, his counterparts in the Senate, all 50 plus of them, would be vehemently against the bill.

1:31.7

Take a listen to part of Tillis's little tirade on the Senate floor.

1:35.7

On health care and betraying a promise, it is inescapable that this bill in its current form will betray the very promise that Donald

1:47.7

J. Trump made in the Oval Office or in the cabinet room when I was there with finance where he said

1:54.4

we can go after waste, fraud, and abuse on any programs.

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