Thursday Update: April 17, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's cancellation of grants to Harvard University amid rising tensions with the Trump administration, public sentiment regarding immigration policies, the World Health Organization's proposed pandemic response treaty, and President Trump's recent trade negotiations with Japan and Mexico.
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| 0:56.8 | Homeland Security Secretary Christine Nome this week announced the cancellation of more than |
| 1:01.0 | $2.5 million in grants to Harvard University. This says tensions between the school and the Trump |
| 1:07.8 | administrations continue to grow. The Department of Homeland Security said in a Wednesday press release that Nome unveiled |
| 1:14.3 | the discontinuation of two grants from the Department at Harvard's worth more than $2.5 million. |
| 1:20.7 | DHS also noted in a press release that the Secretary requested, quote, |
| 1:24.7 | detailed records on Harvard's foreign student visa holders, illegal |
| 1:28.9 | and violent activities in a letter. Harvard bending the need to the anti-semitism driven by its |
| 1:34.3 | spineless leadership fuels a cessable of extremist riots and threatens our national security, |
| 1:39.8 | Nome said in a statement that she released also on Wednesday. |
| 1:48.4 | Quote, with an anti-American pro-Hamas ideology poisoning its campus and classrooms, |
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