Date: July 14, 2017
Host: Jim Schneider
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The following are just some of the stories that were a part of this week’s ’round-up’:
–Team Charlie introduced evidence from Boston Children’s Hospital saying that
Charlie Gard’s diagnosis doesn’t mean he has irreversible brain damage.
–An American doctor will head to the UK next week to examine Charlie Gard.
–Peter and Emma Smith understand the hardships that Charlie Gard and his parents
are facing. Their son Maxwell has the same condition as Charlie, and while he
has benefited from experimental treatment, they’ve still faced numerous
struggles.
–Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has released an updated version of the Better
Care Act and hopes to round up 50 votes to get the legislation passed.
–Americans for Tax Reform is urging lawmakers to repeal all Obamacare taxes
which means a number of them are in the new version of the bill.
–Senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy unveiled the details of their
alternative health care plan yesterday. It’s gives Obamacare money to the
states in the form of a block grant and let’s governors decide how best to
deliver health care to citizens.
–Democrats in the Senate have launched an unprecedented obstruction campaign of
President Trump’s nominees.
–The Senate is going to delay the start of its annual August recess to give
lawmakers more time to work on important legislative issues.
–A Republican lawmaker is vowing to filibuster any spending bill that doesn’t
fund President Trump’s promised U.S./Mexico border wall. He says he’ll use the
opportunity to read the King James Bible on the floor of the U.S. Senate until
the funding is approved.
–The House Appropriations Committee released a bill allocating 1.6 billion
dollars to the construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with
Mexico.
–The Trump administration is firing workers who are not doing their jobs.
According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 526 have been fired for
misconduct since President Trump took office. Another 200 have been suspended
and 33 have been demoted.
–The Trump administration appears to be making its first move toward fulfilling a
campaign promise to fill Guantanamo Bay with ‘bad dudes’.
–An Obama era created loophole for foreign nationals wanting to come to the U.S.
to start businesses has now been halted by the Trump administration.
–Under Trump, more Christian refugees have been admitted into the U.S. in the
first 6 months of 2017 than Muslim refugees.
–Infectious disease is a problem caused by so-called ‘refugees’.
–The Russian lawyer with whom Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump campaign
met with was cleared to enter the U.S under ‘extraordinary circumstances’.
–G-20 group photo shows President Trump wearing the American flag.
–James Comey penned a total of 7 memos describing his talks with President Trump
on the Russian case earlier this year. 4 of them had markings indicating that
they contained classified material at the secret or confidential level.
–Representative Brad Sherman of California filed articles of impeachment against
President Trump.
–The U.S. Navy’s newest, most advanced aircraft carrier will join the fleet this
weekend, bringing the nation’s carrier fleet back up to 11 and marking the
beginning of President Trump’s military rebuild.
