Date: December 12, 2025
Host: Jim Schneider
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Below are highlights from the first quarter hour of this week’s Round-Up broadcast:
–Tyler Robinson, the man who is alleged to have assassinated Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, made his first court appearance yesterday, nearly 3 months after being taken into custody.
–As expected, lawmakers failed to pass either of the competing partisan health care bills in the Senate yesterday. The result all but ensures that the enhanced premium tax credits through legislation known as “Obama Care” will revert to pre-pandemic levels in 2026.
–Wisconsin Congressman Glenn Grothman says the National Defense Authorization Act passed Wednesday by the House contains a little noticed weapon to cut federal spending and bureaucracy. The bill, now heading to the Senate, cuts 19% of civilian jobs inside the War Department saving an estimated 30 billion dollars.
–The U.S. House of Representatives passed a 901 billion dollar defense authorization bill Wednesday but stripped a controversial provision that would have required insurance coverage for in-vitro fertilization for military families.
–The U.S. Congress voted Wednesday in favor of repealing the Caesar Act as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026.
–The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
–A New York Times report revealed that the seized oil tanker may have been trying to conceal its whereabouts by broadcasting falsified location data according to a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and photographs.
–Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the new House Republican-led Select Subcommittee on January 6th, claims that key surveillance footage showing areas near the RNC and DNC where pipe bombs were placed the prior evening was not preserved.
–Thanks to the use of the auto pen, some actions taken in former President Joe Biden’s name might qualify as illegitimate.
–The Federal Reserve on Wednesday did cut interest rates a quarter point.
–Federal prosecutors have uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota’s federally funded food/child nutrition programs where scammers, many of Somali descent, allegedly ripped off over a billion dollars from taxpayers.
–The Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved a stronger version of the city’s local sanctuary ordinance on December 11th.
–The Trump administration’s border czar, Tom Homan, said this week that the Department of Homeland Security is investigating whether Minnesota Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud by allegedly marrying her brother.
