December 18, 2025: Fact-Checking President Trump's End-of-the-Year Address, Congress Passes $901B Defense Authorization Bill, and Ending the Year with GOOD NEWS!!

Episode Format:

1. Trump Signs AI Regulation Executive Order; Here's What It Means and Doesn't Mean (0:18)

2. Trump Designates Fentanyl a "Weapon of Mass Destruction." Here's What That Means and What'll Change (4:58)

3. Congress Sends Defense Authorization Bill to President's Desk; Here's What's In It (9:14)

4. Fact-Checking President Trump's End-of-the-Year Address (~17:53)

5. Quick Hitters: Bongino Steps Down, Hegseth on Strike Video, Government Admits Fault in Mid-Air American Airlines Crash, CDC Adopts New Hep B Vaccine Recommendation, Judge Allows White House Ballroom Construction to Proceed, Inflation Cools, HHS Proposes Revoking Funding for Providing Transition Treatment for Minors, Trump Signs Executive Order Fast-Tracking Marijuana Re-Classification (~35:09)

6. GOOD NEWS to Close Out the Year (~44:08)

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Trump Signs AI Regulation Executive Order; Here's What It Means and Doesn't Mean.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-national-artificial-intelligence-policy/

Trump Designates Fentanyl a "Weapon of Mass Destruction." Here's What That Means and What'll Change.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/designating-fentanyl-as-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/

Congress Sends Defense Authorization Bill to President's Desk; Here's What's In It

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2296/text 

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/17/g-s1-102651/senate-national-defense-authorization-act-hegseth-boat-strike-video 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/senate-ndaa-passage-trump-boat-strikes-00694738 

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/defense-bill-bans-males-from-womens-sports-military-academies 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-passes-ndaa-defense-bill-trump/

Fact-Checking President Trump's End-of-the-Year Address

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtEX-OUEnvQ

https://cmsny.org/correcting-record-false-misleading-statements-on-immigration/

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/08/21/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-population-reached-a-record-14-million-in-2023/

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/07/border-czar-makes-misleading-claim-about-immigrants-with-criminal-records/

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/2024

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/border-crossings-once-again-record-low-november-2025

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3599gx4qo.amp

https://gasprices.aaa.com/2025/01/

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/national-gas-prices-double-since-biden-took-office

https://www.fb.org/news-release/cost-of-thanksgiving-dinner-declines

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fact-checking-trumps-presidential-address-claim-brought-gas/story?id=128506721

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111

https://www.whitehouse.gov/investments/

https://www.realtor.com/news/real-estate-news/trump-monthly-mortgage-payment/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/politics/fact-check-trump-17-trillion-investment

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/realer_11212025.htm

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/realer_02122025.htm

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/realer_02102021.htm

Quick Hitters

https://x.com/FBIDDBongino/status/2001416238027935836  

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/dan-bongino-fbi-exit/  

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hegseth-pentagon-wont-release-video-strike-drug-boat/story?id=128457205 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-government-admits-errors-deadly-midair-collision-dc-rcna249818 

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5652563-cdc-hepatits-b-vaccine-change/  

https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/16/hepatitis-b-vaccine-cdc-acip-recommendation-meets-resistance/  

https://san.com/cc/judge-lets-white-house-ballroom-move-forward-with-limits-and-a-400m-price-tag/  

https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/your-money/ap-us-consumer-prices-decelerated-unexpectedly-in-november-rising-2-7-from-a-year-earlier/ 

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hhs-slash-funding-prohibit-access-trans-care-minors-rcna249874 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/health/transgender-care-minors-hhs-cms

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-signs-executive-order-fast-tracking-reclassification-marijuana-rcna249741