January 22, 2025 Wednesday News Round-Up Part II | Radio 570 WNAX

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Trump praised the defendants on the campaign trail as "hostages," "patriots" and "warriors," and pardoning them became a major theme of Trump's rallies.
63% : "Granted, it's a good center, and it had accreditation outside of regular state accreditation.
62% : "Kolovsky understands the catch-22 in which child care providers find themselves based on her experience working with Lutheran Social Services.
59% : In South Dakota's case, that's the Department of Social Services.
56% : RiAnna Kolovksy left her job with Lutheran Social Services in Sioux Falls because the level of care she wanted for her kids wasn't financially feasible.
53% : The measure would not only greatly expand the detention of immigrants arrested or charged with crimes outlined in the measure, but would give state attorneys general broad discretion to challenge federal immigration policy if enacted into law.
52% : "When the measure is passed by the House, it'll likely be one of the first bills signed into law by Trump, an early victory after he ran a presidential campaign promising mass deportations of immigrants in the country without proper legal authorization.
47% : Earlier Monday, Trump promised an overflow inauguration crowd in the Capitol Visitors Center that would deliver "action" for the Jan. 6 "hostages."He slammed Biden's preemptive pardoning of the "unselect committee of political thugs," referring to the former president's Monday morning action for members and staff who served on the House select committee that probed the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
45% : President Donald Trump on Monday night issued sweeping pardons for nearly all Jan. 6 defendants, erasing accountability for those who violently tried to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results on that date in 2021.Behind the desk of the Oval Office, Trump told reporters he signed a pardon for nearly 1,500 defendants who participated in the attack and commuted the sentences for several others whose punishments require "further research," he said.
39% : They're expecting it," Trump said about the defendants.
39% : The study uses market survey results from the South Dakota Department of Social Services and other data to demonstrate that child care providers are among the lowest wage-earners in the state, yet families are paying between 10-20% of their annual income on child care.
34% : Trump singled out 14 of the nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 defendants for sentence reductions and pardoned "all other individuals convicted," according to his proclamation.
30% : The White House released the names of 14 defendants whose sentences Trump commuted.
21% : Trump is set to sign 10 executive orders to put in motion his immigration crackdown at the southern border.

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