HR 3: Kristi Noem Coming After Sanctuary Cities

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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an anti Israel protests, young men like ore more manly
President and coming up at seven to eight, would you
fly right now into Newark details in the minutes ahead.

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You're in Houston's Morning News. First, let's check out that
morning drive once again. Here Skymine right clear the.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Katie downtown as you're making the curved of the President
SAIDs at forty five.

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That's out of the way.

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Despite our goof Jimmy, we were the first to know
about it as usual. Well, that's our callers. We're backed
up from Studemont. Also two ninety Steve from Burton. Big
banana sticker here inbound Barker Cypers. Got somebody on the
right side here looks like some kind of little box
truck and somebody else on the left. We're bowling as
split and we're backed up from spring Cypress on two
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Here's clip Saunders.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Thank you, Jimmy seven oh one on KTRH. We're sponsored
by the Ocarvers Financial Group. In our top story this morning,
Oh they're back. Check the calendar. May finals. Anti Israel
protesters at Columbia University in New York wearing their masks,
of course, because they don't want to be seen, storming

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the campus library. There were about eighty arrests and a
pair of safety officers were injured in the whole thing.
The rioters, though the good news, they may be the exception,
not the rule. New data shows that young Americans are
quote overwhelmingly Republican in refusing to look back.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
We asked pulling guru Robert Kahally to confirm it.

Speaker 7 (02:14):
We found that to be true.

Speaker 8 (02:15):
The men are laying more Republican than the women laying Democrats.
As far as raw numbers, yeah, we see that continuing it.

Speaker 6 (02:22):
Which is great, But will it continue in next year's midterms.

Speaker 8 (02:27):
I really think from the numbers I've seen, if they
get rid of the tax on tips and social Security
and overtime, I think the Republicans are going to excel
at the midterms if that happens.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
Some big moves, but still a big if. Juff Biggs
News Radio seven forty k tier Ah seven oh three. Now,
then there are the mainstream media games that the Washington Post,
the liberal Washington Post, continues to play. Did you know
they won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the Trump assassination attempt?
Did you know that they said, quote he was removed
after loud noises, No he was shot. Brianna Lyman of

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The Federalist says, this is another example of how the
media has failed.

Speaker 9 (03:05):
That is the slippery slopes that we see where all
these institutions of Polzer Prize, the White House Correspondents Associations,
dinner right, all of them are just puppets for the
larger propaganda apparatus that sees the democratic machine.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
She says, journalism has become an ideological agenda. Closure to Home,
Texas Governor Greg Abbott made the push once again for
bail reform.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Activist judges are protecting dangerous criminals instead of the innocent
Texans that those criminals harm.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Abbott is calling on House Democrats to support a constitutional amendment.
And as we told you a few moments ago, an
off duty police officer shoots two men in his East
Harris County backyard.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Overnight. Details are still coming in.

Speaker 7 (03:47):
One of the men is dead.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
New polling from the Liberal University of Texas shows that
while President Trump has high approval numbers at the border is,
numbers on the economy are lacking.

Speaker 10 (03:58):
This is expected because Trump is playing the economic long game.

Speaker 11 (04:01):
I think he's trying to correct some long term problems
that we've seen over the last few decades, and I
hope that he gets it sorted out very quickly.

Speaker 10 (04:10):
Rn C Committee man doctor Robin Armstrong says this poll
also shows that Ken Paxton has a strong advantage in
his race with Senator Cornyn.

Speaker 12 (04:17):
He's kind of a conservative icon nationally and in the
state of Texas as well, Paxton.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Is generally pretty popular amongst conservatives and Republicans.

Speaker 10 (04:25):
Armstrong noted that this is still early and these numbers
will likely change closer to the midterms. Ethan Buchanan News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (04:32):
Seven ZHO four.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
President Trump expected to announce a trade deal with the
UK at nine o'clock our time.

Speaker 13 (04:37):
I've been getting ripped off by these countries, including our
so called allies. We have had our jobs taken from us,
We've had our technology stolen from us. China cheats every
day of the week and twice on Sundays, and now
you have a president who is holding them to account
and is getting deals.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley there on Fox. Even though trade
talks with China are set for Saturday, President Trump says
he's got no plans to back off on tariffs against
the Chinese.

Speaker 12 (05:02):
We were losing with China on trade at trillion dollars
a year more actually one point in one, but let's
say a trillion.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
You know what we're losing now.

Speaker 7 (05:10):
Nothing that's not bad.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
Down Futures are up three hundred and three points this morning,
and this is despite the fact that tensions continue to
rise between India and Pakistan.

Speaker 14 (05:20):
President Trump is decrying India and pakistan slide towards war
in the aftermath of Indian air strikes across Kashmir and Punjab.
In an exclusive interview, India's ambassador and Washington tells Fox
News his government now wants to de escalate. He insists
India's strikes were not an act of war, as Pakistan claims,
but retaliation. Last month's terrorists killed twenty six civilians in

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Indian controlled Kashmir, a majority Muslim region. Twenty five of
the victims were Hindu tourists.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
Jillian Turner reporting there as expected, the Federal Reserve left
interest rates alone, citing uncertainty in the economy. Financial planner
Richard Rosso, that's the ultra cautious approach to continue.

Speaker 8 (06:03):
If these pariffs do not prove inflationary, which I don't
think they're going to pan, we get some deals done,
then inflation will fall to where their target is and
they'll probably have one cut.

Speaker 7 (06:12):
But you got to.

Speaker 8 (06:12):
Remember the market was looking at six or seven ray
cuts this year, and you're maybe going to get one
or two.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
The Fed's next meeting is in June. Seven oh six
on KGRH, the Astros finally broke out of their slump
and in a big way.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
And Payna Rockets went deep to left, going back on
it as Collins on the warning track looking up and.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
That ball is gone.

Speaker 12 (06:33):
Just did clear the fence, a three run home rock
for charity Payne.

Speaker 7 (06:37):
Yeah the call.

Speaker 5 (06:38):
On Sports Talk seven ninety the Stros beat the Brewers
nine to one. They host Cincinnati tomorrow night. I'm Cliff
Saunders right here on Houston's News Weather in traffic station
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Speaker 1 (06:51):
The very latest on your way to work. This is
Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrens. I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (07:01):
Did I miss my queue?

Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (07:03):
Yes you did, Yes you did. I was doing very
very important things.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
We have to punish you.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Well, you know, depending on what the punishment is, I
might actually enjoy it. Don't go in, don't go Skymike
on me seven oh seven here on Houston's Morning News.
All right, we're going to talk about flying into Newark
International Airport, which is you probably have heard, at least
according to our transportation secretary, it's not a very fun
thing to do, right, now, so I try to imagine

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things in my mind. What is it like to fly
into Newark International Airport right now? Probably something like this.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Piker, you're coming in too fast. I know, I know,
he knows, he knows.

Speaker 7 (07:48):
Below seven hundred.

Speaker 15 (07:49):
Now it's still going down six seventy five, six fifty
six twenty five.

Speaker 7 (07:53):
He said, no, no, he's down, he's down. Sounds your
alarm bell?

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Now, oh right now, let.

Speaker 11 (08:01):
Me make you get crash position.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Down thirty degrees a flat.

Speaker 16 (08:14):
I listen to me.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
Remember you up breaks some swatches by the firing up.

Speaker 7 (08:20):
It's all over the place, feet up to third feet.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
You probably liked that when the radar goes out, right,
they lost the radar seven to eight our time. Here
in Houston's War News. Here's here is Sean Duppy, Here's
the Transportation secretary. You know, as you can imagine, people
are trying to blame the Trump administration for what has
happened as far as Newark International Airport.

Speaker 7 (08:42):
They are not to blame.

Speaker 14 (08:43):
They have made no investments in the system that we
now see having issues in Newark.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
On top of that, they were focused on things like
racist roads.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
They literally spent time concerned about the word cockpit and
changing cockpit, two flight deck.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
It's not funny if the whole system needs to be Redone.

Speaker 17 (09:06):
Racist roads my favorite ice cream flavor.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
Judge.

Speaker 17 (09:10):
He makes a great point, Mayor Pete, you can't stop
blaming people. He was focused on racist roads. What did
Chuck Schubert do? He's been powerful?

Speaker 7 (09:18):
What is he been in office for decades?

Speaker 18 (09:20):
I think I counted it once. I think I counted
he worked with like seven presidents. Yeah, but here's the thing.
The Democrats don't get anything done. They spend a lot
of money, but they don't do anything. Classic example is
the money that they use for the EV chargers, remember
the billions whatever, and they got two chargers done in
four years. But there was a one point two trillion

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dollar infrastructure bill and a package actually the largest in history,
five billion dollars for air traffic control. One billion dollar
spent on that, but only twenty percent of it was
actually used for air traffic controls. So what we've got
is the GAO, the General Accounting Office has been saying

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for the last two years that it's dangerous, it's outdated.
They got floppy discs fifty one of one hundred and
thirty eight systems are unsustainable. And this is all during
the Biden administration. They said they had no plan under
road to modernize the projects for at least another ten years.
And by the way, those should not cut air traffic

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controllers nor critical safety personnel.

Speaker 7 (10:27):
No, they didn't, and that's what democrats are claiming. Don't know.
They didn't.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
And you guys didn't spend any money to upgrade the systems,
which is why we're in the situation we are now.
And of course what banks Newark even more difficult is
is right next to New York City, there's a lot
there's like three major airports and a lot of air
traffic going on there seven to eleven. Let's get the
traffic and weather together.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Let's give Terry the remote here, she's tired of our
childish movies. Here do you want to watch like Sophie's
Choice or Places Over?

Speaker 7 (10:56):
Please? Got no gin tol.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Let's go on the north side. You know what us
do two ninety.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
First of all, this this is the biggest thing we
have right now inbound at Barker Cypress.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
I'm looking for Barker Cypress. So it's a little before
it's a.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Box truck on one side, somebody else on the left side,
so it's on both shoulders. We're bowling a split. Everybody's
doing just fine. We're pointing at things, but we're slow.
From Spring Cypress and and that'll two ninety o up.
You lose about eight minutes going this way. Katie Freeway
inbound breaks at Grand Parkway to Fry Road. Not bad
for the Katie trying to hit the presidents. Now you
hit those break lights at stew to mind. Let's keep

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Eddie on the West Park Tollway this morning, our big boss,
it's not bad enough to reroute now South Parker Cypress
some breaks in extra four minutes here Southwest Freeway got
a reported wreck.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
I believe it.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Chimney Rock, this is northbound. Give me about ten minutes.
I'll get you some laneage here and I tend east.
Tony from Beaumont said it's like, well, I sure love
to hear from LORI from Winnie who sounds like Papanpie
or maybe a female caller seven one three two one
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Terry is here.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
We've got partly cloudy skies to start the day, and
probably going to be around almost all the day, aren't they.

Speaker 16 (12:11):
It really is going to be a nice day. And
sky Mike, you have scared away all the lady listeners.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Wait with Sophie's choice.

Speaker 7 (12:19):
No, not with Sophie's choice, with our choice of movies.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Oh yeah, I'm pulling our finger on him.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
You know, once we qualify for the discount at Denny's,
it might be time for us to no longer find
that stuff.

Speaker 16 (12:28):
Maybe it is time for breakfast for everybody, all right, Yeah, nice,
nice weather here. A little warm today, but the temperature
is cool down after today. There is that twenty percent
chance of a thundershower later on this afternoon, but most
of us no rain. Midge upper eighties this afternoon, Tomorrow,
no rain, just sunshine to mid eighties. Thirty percent chance

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of some afternoon thundershowers Saturday Sundays just sunshine the weekend
in the upper seventies to low eighties. After that it
does start to heat up, so enjoy some milder weather.
Temperature right now still sixty six here at your officials.
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on the day.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
So when I first saw this story, I thought, why
are we doing this story? This doesn't sound like much
of anything. So what So the speaker of the House,
Texas House, Dustin Burroughs, fired his you know, one of
his general counsels and policy director. I mean people get
fired all the time. Then you see why he got fired,
and that's when it becomes a story. We'll talk about
that next. First, though, traffic and weather together. Ah oh,

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sky Mike discovered something big.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
We had the wreck ten minutes ago Southwest Freeway northbound
at Chimney Rock. We got three center lanes here. Doug
Pike from our sister nine point fifty calls it a
scare moochh what does that mean? All right, that's inbound.
Here's the breaks from Findern north found Also, we're still
working with that problem downtown.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
It's Katie Freeway. Got another one at forty five. This
is inbound.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
Now you're Katie's going to back up from Yale and
Golf Freeway, some breaks right after home depot Grigg's northbound.
Remember you could call our tip line seven one three
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Part of the cloudy slight chance for straight shower storm
today eighty five, mostly Sunday to party cloude eighty three
Tomorrow weekend looks good. Just a slight chance of a
shower on Saturday. Mother's Day looks perfect. Mostly Sunday to
party cloudy with the iigh temperature right about eighty six.
Currently temperature is sixty six at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to get you caught

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up and some more of our Thursday morning stories. Here's Cliff,
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (14:52):
The Whitehouse is taking the deportation fight straight to sanctuary,
not cities, but states. A trade deal with the UK
gets announced it nine o'clock and Jimmy, you would ask
the question, so I figured I would do my research.
Amazon refunded a Kentucky woman after her eight year old
son ordered seventy thousand lollipops.

Speaker 19 (15:10):
And how much did the little angel spend? Forty two
hundred bucks? Most better be some good lollipops, no green
or yellow ones.

Speaker 7 (15:21):
Uh, someone's getting this banking, you would think.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.

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Our next update is at seven thirty.

Speaker 13 (15:30):
There's a lot of stuff happening, peace, steels, trade deals,
tax deals.

Speaker 11 (15:34):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Check you and often for all this stuff you need
to know it's stuff. News Radio seven KTRH seven twenty
four time here in Houston's morning news. It's not that
a member of Dustin Borough's staff has been fired, it's
the reason why they were fired. Joining us to talk
about it from Texas Scorecard has a big story on it.
Brandon Walton's Yeah, I was thinking it was a nothing

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burger until I started reading your story band and well,
oh my god, he did what explained to our listeners
what it is that who this guy is, and who
he's married to and what he did.

Speaker 20 (16:10):
Yeah. So Dustin Burrows this week on Monday actually dismissed
his general counsel and policy director, a guy by the
name of Jimmy Skipton reportedly and this is where you know,
capital sources come in this, you know, allegedly put put
that in here. But the obviously he's not saying, you

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know what what happened. You wouldn't expect him to go
into why he got fired. But the reporting is is
that his wife, who is a lobbyist in Austin.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
You know that he was essentially.

Speaker 20 (16:46):
Maybe representing himself as two different members and chairs in
the house pushing or pushing against different pieces of legislation,
purporting to represent Dustin Burrows on these matters, but maybe
was actually representing his wife's lobby interests.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh Man, talk about your conflict of interest. Here's my
first question that comes to mind here is is how
is it the Dustin Burroughs took so long to figure
out what was going on?

Speaker 19 (17:18):
Well?

Speaker 20 (17:18):
I don't know. And that's why some people are saying, Okay, well,
well how long did they know about this? Certainly a
good thing that he was dismissed if this was indeed
the case. But the question is, you know, how long
did they know? Is this you know, this person they
even just you know, they're trying to make this person
a scapegoat. And I think the biggest question is what

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legislation has been affected during this session by this, right.
You know, we've heard from members off the record that
that they were essentially being treated this way and being
you know, told different things were priorities are not priorities.
But we haven't seen. I mean, you know, what bills
were affected, what would have passed or not passed were

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this not the case.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Well, and that's that's the important piece of information to have,
and if nothing else too, this also is opportunity to
highlight what a huge problem we have in the Texas
State legislature with lobbyists.

Speaker 20 (18:17):
Absolutely, and it's a it's definitely a cultural issue, right
when you look at these staffs of you know, I'm
picking on Dustin Burrows, but you can look at you know,
most statewides, the governor, et cetera, and you look and
you know, these offices are essentially revolving doors of staffers
and lobbyists, and you know, I think that that's something
that raises a lot of questions.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Sure does, All right, Brandon, We'll look forward to the
follow through that I know you're going to have on
this story. Appreciated, Brandon, Walton's at Texas Scorecard seven twenty seven.
It is time to take a look at your money
as we check them with Jeff Fellinger and.

Speaker 12 (18:49):
Jimmy Uncertainties about the economy or having an impact on
homeowners' personal financial health, or at least their perception of
their financial health. Nearly three quarters of the homeowners surveyed
by Point belief tariffs will worsen their financial situation over
the next twelve months. And it wasn't just new car
dealerships that saw surge and business in the first quarter.

(19:10):
The online used car retailer Carvana reports record sales for
the first three months of the year. It's profit doubled,
stock market futures looking good. This morning, I'm Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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It is seven thirty Here on Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this f are. If
you're a Sanctuary c any. Christy nom is coming to
see you. What's Biden trying to accomplish with all these
TV appearances and coming up at seven thirty eight, the
deck collectors are coming for your overdue student loans. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

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we're checking out that Morning Drive again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
All right, everybody's okay. On the Southwest Freeway. We're just
pointing at things that Chimney Rock came down. But this
is three middle lanes. It's a pretty massive backup now
from bel Air, and I don't think it'll be there
very long.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
Dana from clear Lake is on the tip line.

Speaker 16 (20:20):
Good morning, Sky Mike, Jose you know there's an accident
off of Duma and the side theater of the de Belt.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Wait all right, Dana from clear Lake her very first
ever banana sticker. I'm still trying to figure out what
a scaremosh is. I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot
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From r KTRH Generator super Center in twenty four hour
Weather Center part of the claudia' Slight Chances with straight
shower storm today with high temperature right about eighty five.
Forecast looks nice all the way through Mother's Day. We
will get the very latest on that from Terry Smith
at the Weather Channel in eight minutes right now sixty
seven at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty KTRH. It's time now for the news here Sliff Shldiers, Thank.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
You, Jimmy seven thirty two on KTRH. Our top story
is the fight against sanctuary cities. It's been going on
for years, but now the Trump administration took it directly
to the states.

Speaker 21 (21:11):
In twenty twenty, Governor Pritzker expanded access to taxpayer funded
free healthcare for illegal aliens. It has cost the citizens
of Illinois one point six billion dollars. He has been
incentivizing illegals to come here and to live at the.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
State HS Secretary Christy Noam in Illinois. Another federal juhnges
going after the White House over a reported plan to
deport illegal aliens to Libya. Joe Biden appointed US District
Court Judge Brian Murphy issued in order yesterday telling the
White House those flights would violate other rulings.

Speaker 7 (21:45):
Well.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
Former President Joe Biden.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
Comes out of hiding again today he'll talk to the
View and what will not be a hard hitting interview,
a day after getting a softball interview from the BBC
claiming he stayed in the race last year as long
as he did because he had had so much success.

Speaker 22 (22:02):
What we had set out to do, no I thought
we could do and become so successful our agenda was
hard to say.

Speaker 7 (22:10):
Now I'm gonna stop now. Yes, he really said that.

Speaker 5 (22:15):
You can bet the View won't be asking about college
anti semitism, the subject of a House hearing yesterday.

Speaker 14 (22:21):
Higher education has failed to address the scorge of anti Semitism,
putting Jewish students at risk at.

Speaker 7 (22:28):
Haverford and other campuses across the country. I yield back
New York.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
Republican congress women at East Stephonic dozens about eighty to
be exact. We're arrested at Columbia University in a riot
at that campus yesterday. The Federal Reserve keeps interest rates
unchanged as expected. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett says
the Fed and investors doubting the Trump's agenda, those fears
are unfounded.

Speaker 23 (22:52):
I'm dismayed that they've got bad economic Modelinggue of what
might happen to tariffs? They said, you know, if you
look at the Wall Street folks, they're saying that the
tariffs are going to creater the economy. Meanwhile, we got
really strong jobs and we don't have the inflation that
they said was going to happen.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
By the way, Trump is expected to announce a major
trade deal at nine o'clock this morning.

Speaker 24 (23:11):
There are multiple reports that that trade deal will be
with the United Kingdom, a long time US ally. However,
the White House has not offered any confirmation. For weeks,
pressure has been building on the White House, including from
some Republican lawmakers, to reach a deal to stop Americans
from pying higher prices on imports.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Foxes Mark meredithdal Futures this morning are up two hundred
and ninety eight points seven thirty four on KTRH. Even
though the President has closed the border.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
Writer K. M.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Braakey says Biden's kept it open as part of what
he calls the attack on Western men.

Speaker 9 (23:42):
Whites are always under attacked.

Speaker 7 (23:45):
It's nautical interests.

Speaker 9 (23:46):
But that's the fact that I see is this destructive mass.

Speaker 8 (23:49):
Immigration and the demonization the anti whiteness that is so
prevalent in all Western nations.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
He says, white people are a problem for the lefts globalist.
In Austin State, lawmakers continued to fight for life, looking
to crack down on groups using taxpayer dollars to pay
for women to leave Texas and get abortions. Even though
Texas has strong pro life laws, tens of thousands of
Texas babies are still killed by abortion every single year.

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John Sego with Texas Right to Life at a hearing
this week. Now, he told you yesterday that a top
member of Speaker, Dustin Burrows his staff, was recently fired,
or allegations that he used his position to lobby other
legislators on his own to benefit his Democrat wife, who's
a lobbyist.

Speaker 11 (24:36):
Telling them to move certain pieces of legislation, telling them
to kill certain bills, not based on what secret Burroughs
had actually directed, but instead on what would benefit his
lobbyist wife and her clients.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
Brandon Walton's with Texas Scorecards says this could be one
of the reasons that so many conservative bills have stalled
in the House, but ultimately the blame falls on the speaker.
Coming up on seven thirty six, today is day number
two of them the papal conclave in Rome, and we've
already seen black smoke on at least one occasion.

Speaker 25 (25:04):
The last two popes, Francis and Benedict, were both elected
on the second day of the conclave. It means thousands
will gather in Saint Peter's Square in hope of a
conclusive ballot today. There will be a maximum of four votes,
two in the morning and two in the afternoon. The
one hundred and thirty three cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel
need to find a candidate that at least two thirds

(25:26):
of them agree on. That's eighty nine votes. None reached
that mark in Wednesday's only vote.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
Jonathan Savage reporting seven thirty six. So you think AI
is so smart, well, how about this. It still needs
help getting your burger order right, and it might not
take as many jobs as you think. A new industry
report found that AI needed human backup twenty two percent
of the time.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
It doesn't mean that AI is not going to continue
to improve, but AI simply cannot account for the nuances
of the human condition.

Speaker 7 (25:58):
It is not there yet.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
Marketing consultant Peter Shankman said, instead of taking your job,
it's more likely that AI will be used to make
your job easier. The astro step of three game losing streak,
beating Milwaukee nine to one. They're back home tomorrow night.
The host Cincinnati Reds. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news
Weather in traffic station news Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
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Speaker 7 (26:28):
Never sounded so good.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
And there are some people without standing stid loans probably
are saying that very same thing, right, I wish I
hadn't spent it. I walk my money back. And maybe
that's why it's not always an affordability problem. Sometimes we've
emboldened people to say, screw that, I'm not going to
pay it. I didn't get a good education, I didn't

(26:52):
get a good job for my education. I'm not going
to pay off the student loan. And during the Bid
administration you could get away with that, but that has changed.
That is no longer the case. There is going to
be a debt collection with the Trump administration. If you
have an outstanding student loan that you've defolded on, they're

(27:14):
going to come for the money the only way they can.
And here's a report on that from Fox.

Speaker 7 (27:20):
What's top of mind for most people.

Speaker 15 (27:22):
People hear the garnishing wages angle to this, and they
might be wondering how that's going to work. Well, here's
what the Education Department says. They say that they will
begin involuntary collection through the Treasury Department's Offset program. Means
borrowers who have student loans in default will receive communication
from federal student aid officials in the upcoming weeks with

(27:42):
information about their options involuntary collection. Let's just put this
in plan English. It means the government can garnish wages,
intercept tax refunds, and seize portions of Social Security checks
and other benefit payments to go toward paying back the loans. So, Sean,
is this the first you've heard of such an idea,
garnishing wages to pay back student loans?

Speaker 4 (28:04):
Is this a new one?

Speaker 26 (28:05):
You know, It's been in practice for a long time
by the Department of Education. It was put at a
pause for quite a while, since twenty twenty, since the pandemic,
really since the first Trump administration, you know, And I
don't think it's abnormal, especially for something like student loans.

Speaker 7 (28:21):
Unlike car payment, car loads or.

Speaker 26 (28:24):
Households, where they can repossess your house or car, you
can't repossess a college degree, as Linda McMahon put out
in her editorial to Wall Street Journal, and so they
have to go through more drastic measures such as wage
garnishment such as irs refund, tax refund seizures, as well
as potentially other financial penalties in order to get student

(28:46):
loan bars eighties student loans back.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
And you know, who knows how long it would take
if that's all they can take from you. Because they
can't take all of your social Security check, you're going
to a portion of it. Then you know, depending upon
the size of your student loan, they may never get
their money back. They're just trying to get some of
the back. Seven forty. Time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
All right, all right, Jimmy, let's get our big boss,
Eddie Martini off the West Park Tollway. I've just got
a big spackle here just inside the belt. We're losing
about nineteen minutes. I think it's the people rerouting from
the Southwest Freeway. So let's put Eddie on Richmond and
please get out of his way. I need this job, y'all.
Southwest Freeway northbound Chimney Rock clear it. I knew it
wouldn't stay there very long, and they had all lanes

(29:31):
for a minute, just for the safety of the ninjas.
We have twenty five minutes of suckage now coming up
from Beach Night Katie Freeway.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Not bad.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Stay the course on the Katie. You've got breaks now,
Mason Roade some of them. You hit some more right
after Yale. On the inbound you lose about eight minutes
if that. Let's check Dave P.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Coong Grove.

Speaker 13 (29:49):
Dude, I notice you've been reporting an issue on two
ninety inbound at Barker Ciders.

Speaker 26 (29:53):
I just passed there, all clear, moving at posted speeds.
On two ninety, I just passed Selvy, still moving all right.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Dave at a grand march at his wedding terry. I
think that's his first banana sticker. Also, Yeah, we've got
some breaks now right around my start, y'all, and again
around thirty fourth. Let's see what else we're clear. And
I wish we could clear the squeeze, but it's always
like that. Six in north westbound at forty five, big
spackle here golf Freeway. We've done a great job of
not having our morning reck at park Place so far.

(30:22):
I got breaks now from Edgebrook and Allison from League
City and also Kim from Leake City. They're both loaded.
They're on two eighty eight, two eighty eight northbound. Some
breaks they can afford the tolllanes. I've got some breaks
right at the Beltway. Not a bad morning on two
eighty eight. Remember to hit us on the free iHeartRadio
app Click that talk Back. I'm Skymike in the USA
RV Resorts dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four our weather center
Terry Smith. This year, she's got a bill for forecast
all the way through Mother's Day. And remember the number
one thing that mom wants a Mother's Day is to
sleep in, left alone, sleep in and then leave her alone.

Speaker 16 (30:57):
Exactly right, Mom, Mom, Yes, a day of quiet would
be nice. Okay, Well, hey, at least our weather is quiet.
I am loving this a little less rain, more sunshine.

Speaker 7 (31:12):
For the most part.

Speaker 16 (31:13):
The temperatures are comfortable now. It's warm today, mid topper
eighties this afternoon with the twenty percent chance of a shower,
thunderstorm and that is it Tomorrow, no rain and.

Speaker 7 (31:24):
A little bit cooler, a little bit low to mid eighties.

Speaker 16 (31:27):
Tomorrow weekend, the temperatures are in the upper sixties to
low eighties. We do have a thirty percent chance of
some showers or thunderstorms in the afternoon Saturday, but no
rain on Mother's Day when everybody's just leaving her alone
so she can have some peace and quiet. And then
Monday is sunny. And now we're going to start to
heap back up, folks. I'm just letting you know now
the temperatures getting quite warm early next week.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Temperature right now is quite comfortable sixty eight at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 7 (31:56):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
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Speaker 2 (32:04):
So White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says Trump is
absolutely one hundred percent serious about reopening Alcatraz. More in
that story coming up first, though, traffic and weather together.
As we check out the drive again, your sky Mike.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
Let's do the two ninety thing outbound. We had that
reck at Barker Cypress long gone.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
Forget it.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Inbound, you're a Little two nine ed up at Huffmeister
Southwest Freeway. It's gonna take a while to get rid
of this suckage here. That was a reck at Chimney Rocket.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
It was really minor. Everybody was just pointing.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
But we've got a lot of breaks still from Beachnut
twenty two extra minutes. It's causing the west part to
smunch up also right inside the belt. I'm Skymichael the
Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather Center. Partly cloudy,
slight chancefers straight shower storm eighty five today mostly Sunday
to party cloude eighty three tomorrow, party cloudia. Slight shower
possibility on Saturday about eighty and then eighty six on
Mother's Day Sunday with mostly to party cloudy skies mostly Sunday,
partly clanning right now, current temperatures sixty eight at your

(33:03):
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.
We're checking out some more of our top Thursday morning stories.
Here's clip.

Speaker 7 (33:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
Jimmy Trump makes a trade deal with the UK. Transportation
Secretary Sean Duffy announced as an overhaul to the air
traffic control system today.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
And this happened in Florida, not you would think.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
In Australia, the owner of a kangaroo, Jimmy, is charged
with misdemeanors after that kangaroo went on a little joy
hoop through the little town of Saint Cloud. The owner
did not have the proper permits.

Speaker 7 (33:35):
Why do you have a kangaroo in Minnesota?

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Exactly?

Speaker 2 (33:38):
No, Florida, Oh, Florida. Well yeah, Why do you have
a kangaroo period? Why do you have an outside of
a zoo? Why would you have or petting zoo? Why
would you have a kangaroo in the United States? You
know they're vicious, They're absolutely they're dangerous. They can eviscerate you.
I sense a Netflix series. Get the latest news anytime
at KTRH dot com.

Speaker 19 (33:58):
Rade.

Speaker 7 (33:58):
Next update is at eight o'clock fifty nine.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
Inbound at the loop is always a problem.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
KATRH time saving traffic connect on the ten.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
All right, So you know the President, I thought it
was more about symbolism. I think he was really serious
about reopening Alcatraz. Caroline Levitt, White House spokesperson, says no, no,
he is completely serious about doing this.

Speaker 22 (34:23):
This is a phenomenal idea by President Trump that will
be executed upon. In fact, I can confirm for you
that the White House has already administered calls with the
Bureau of Prisons, our counterparts at the Department of Justice,
and our counterparts at the Department of Interior, because Alcatraz
is now run by the National Park Service, and we
know our great Secretary of Interior, Doug Bergham, is in

(34:44):
charge of that. So the Bureau of Prisons has already
confirmed that they are assessing next steps to reopen this
notorious prison. And the reason for it is because President
Trump is leaving no stone unturned to restore law in
order to our country and to make it very clear
to criminals repeat offenders, not just illegal immigrant criminals, but

(35:05):
also American citizens who have refused to comply with our
nation's laws. If you have been repeatedly breaking the law,
if you are in and out of prison, that is
ending under this administration. President Trump's team is going to
enforce our laws and prosecute you to the fullest extent
of the law.

Speaker 17 (35:23):
So we are.

Speaker 22 (35:24):
Absolutely looking into this, assessing next steps, and it's a
part of the President's big picture law and order agenda,
which is obviously working, especially when you look at the
illegal border crossings at our southern border. The border is secure,
NASS deportations are underway, and law and order is back
in America.

Speaker 9 (35:41):
Thanks to President Trump.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
I can't wait to see if he pulls that off Alcatraz,
bringing back as an actual prison. Listen, you all have
a great day. See you tomorrow morning, bright and early,
starting in five am. Hope to see you at the
Sava Room four an am nine to fifty KPRC