Thursday Update: May 22, 2025
The Great America Show
Dobbs Media Group
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
John Fawcett breaks down today's top stories, including RFK Jr.'s alarming MAHA report on American healthcare spending, the U.S. Treasury's decision to phase out the penny, President Trump's ongoing battle with Harvard University regarding foreign student enrollment, and the House's passage of a crucial bill under Mike Johnson's leadership.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America show Midday Update for Thursday, May 22nd. Happy Thursday, folks. Weekends almost here. |
| 0:09.0 | Secretary of HHS, RFK Jr., releasing a Maha report today, the first of its kind, troubling information about just where Americans are spending the money, where the federal government's spending the money. and what it all means for the future of our country and the future of our children. |
| 0:25.7 | Let's take a listen to some of RFK Jr's remarks from earlier today. |
| 0:29.4 | All of us agree that the U.S. will cease to be a world superpower if we continue spending two times more than any country on health care while living less than |
| 0:40.5 | citizens of other countries and enduring fertility crisis, a crisis in recruiting people to the military |
| 0:48.6 | and the ruinous health care costs. Health expenditures are the largest part of the federal budget, and we get sicker for each |
| 0:58.0 | and every dollar we spend. |
| 1:00.2 | 90% of that spending is going for chronic disease. |
| 1:03.9 | And everyone agrees it's a moral failing that U.S. children are on track today to live |
| 1:09.1 | shorter lives than their parents. |
| 1:11.5 | The first time in the American history where that is the case, this report is the first time in |
| 1:17.6 | modern American history that the federal government gives a clear-eyed assessment of what |
| 1:22.9 | is happening to children's health and the potential causes. |
| 1:26.4 | RFK Jr. is absolutely right. If we don't get this under control, the already dying |
| 1:31.3 | fertility rates in this country are going to be far worse than they already are, if not even |
| 1:36.7 | imaginable, but possible. In other news, folks, start saving your pennies, no pun intended. |
| 1:42.3 | The U.S. Treasury is starting the process to phase out |
| 1:44.6 | production of the penny making good on President Trump's directive that the United States |
| 1:48.4 | government will stop producing its one-scent coins after more than two century. The Treasury |
| 1:53.6 | Department spokesperson said the agency had placed its final order of pennies this month and |
| 1:58.7 | that the U.S. Mint would continue manufacturing the pennies until that |
| 2:01.3 | supply runs out. Now, for those you who are asking, why are we getting rid of the penny? The mint is saying |
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