Wednesday, December 21st, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

News, Daily News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today's headlines: The House Ways and Means committee voted yesterday in a closed door meeting to release six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns to the public. The House January 6th committee is set to release the full report of its findings today, following the initial 100 pages that they released on Monday. Wells Fargo has agreed to pay 3.7 billion dollars to settle claims that they illegally charged fees and interest on customers’ auto loans and mortgages. Afghanistan’s Taliban government ruled yesterday that female students are barred from attending universities. Finally for today, scary weather reports flood in from California and Pakistan. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NY Times: House committee votes to release Trump’s tax data after yearslong battle to obtain it. Washington Post: Read the summary of the Jan. 6 committee report AP News: Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B over consumer law violations AP News: Taliban bar women from university education in Afghanistan NPR: A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shakes Northern California, leaving 70k without power Bloomberg: Pakistan Pleads for Help Following Unprecedented Floods Axios: "Life-threatening" cold, bomb cyclone blizzard to sweep U.S. this week NPR: A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shakes Northern California, leaving 70k without power Host: Sami Sage Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Original Music and Editing by Brandon Lee Bjornson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Wednesday, December 21st, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:07.8	by Betcha's media.
0:08.8	I'm your host Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily 5 minute breakdown of the headlines
0:13.6	that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality show there is.
0:18.4	Our government.
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0:40.7	I'm back and we're starting today with House Committee Corner.
0:43.8	The House Ways and Means Committee voted yesterday in a closed store meeting to release 6 years
0:48.0	of Donald Trump's tax returns to the public.
0:50.5	As they race to do so before they lose control of the committee when the new Congress with
0:54.0	the Republic of Majority is sworn in in early January.
0:58.1	Not only that, but the committee shared that the IRS failed to audit Trump's taxes
1:01.5	for the first few years he was in office, despite their existing policy that makes auditing
1:05.8	the sitting president mandatory.
1:08.1	They only started to audit him in 2019 when the committee's chairman requested to see
1:11.8	Trump's tax returns.
1:13.7	It may be a few days before we the public get to see the returns.
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