Date: March 22, 2024
Host: Jim Schneider
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Deportation cases dismissed, massive spending bill creates controversy, the so-called Affordable Care Act celebrates a birthday and more. These and other headlines are covered on the “Round-Up” this week.
–The massive spending bill presented by House Republican leaders is filled with millions of dollars in funding for LGBT organizations, including $845,000 for gay garden parties.
The 1.2 trillion dollar spending bill released by Speaker Mike Johnson was blasted by Representatives Chip Roy and Marjorie Taylor Green. Jim provided audio from both representatives.
–Days after underwriting the 92 million dollar bond for former President Donald Trump’s E. Jean Carroll defamation appeal, insurance giant Chubb, has now declined to underwrite the half-billion dollar appeal bond that the GOP frontrunner needs in his New York civil fraud case.
–New York Attorney General Letitia James recently took the first steps toward seizing Trump’s assets according to public records.
–Former President Trump and other defendants in the Georgia election interference case have the go-ahead to appeal last week’s ruling that allows Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis to continue to lead the prosecution.
–Tomorrow is the 14th anniversary of the so-called Affordable Care Act.
–Despite the fact that over 90% of the U.S. population has some form of health insurance, medical debt remains a persistent problem.
–By nearly two to one, voters believe President Joe Biden is using the Justice Department to hobble former President Donald Trump and jail him so that he can’t win the Fall election.
–All eyes were on Ohio on Tuesday as Trump-backed businessman Bernie Moreno notched a major victory in that state’s Republican Senate primary setting up a pivotal contest against Senator Sherrod Brown in November.
–The Biden administration failed to file court papers in hundreds of thousands of deportation cases, so many were dismissed.
–Wausau, Wisconsin’s Public Health and Safety Committee approved a request from the police department to add two additional officers to address growing homelessness.
A mass of illegal immigrants broke through a fence in El Paso in a rush to enter the U.S. The group that initially rushed the fence numbered about 100 illegal aliens out of about 600 people shoving one another aside in order to cross the border.
–Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders directed the Arkansas National Guard to send soldiers to the southern border to assist the Texas National Guard.
–The Massachusetts House of Representatives approved an additional 245 million dollars for emergency family shelters as an increasing migrant population in the state continues to overwhelm the system.
–Squatters take over a privately owned home and its the owner that was handcuffed and arrested.
–A woman is beaten to death by squatters in her mother’s Manhattan apartment and stuffed into a duffle bag.
