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--:-- John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, December 14th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The U.S. House of Representatives put their support behind a defense policy bill today, sending it to President Biden's desk. The record $886 billion bill authorizes aid for Ukraine, as well as more resources to push back on the Chinese presence in the Indo-Pacific.
--:-- John Bickley: Apart from the National Defense Authorization Act, Congress also approved a 5.4% raise for military servicemen, the largest they've received in over a decade.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Some Republicans in the House, like Representative Chip Roy, have reservations about various social programs included in the bill.
--:-- Chip Roy: A vote for this bill is not just a bill for pay raises and support for our men and women in uniform. A vote for this bill is a perpetuation of the woke policies undermining our military, breaking down morale, driving down recruiting, and now undermining the civil liberties of the American people by not reforming FISA.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The Democrat Senate backed the NDAA on Wednesday with a vote of 87 to 13.
--:-- John Bickley: A federal judge is pausing the trial of Donald Trump regarding charges of election interference as an appeals court weighs the former president's claim to prosecutorial immunity.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has said it will expedite the process in order to reach a ruling by March when the trial is set to begin. Due to the aggressive nature of the schedule the appeals court set out. All written filings must be submitted by January 2nd.
--:-- John Bickley: Seven people were arrested in Denmark today for allegedly planning what Israeli officials called a terror attack.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Officials say that Danish agencies, through a coordinated international effort, exposed Hamas infrastructure on European soil and arrested suspects in Denmark and the Netherlands on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack.
--:-- John Bickley: The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Wednesday condemning anti-Semitism and the much-criticized testimony of three university presidents on the issue.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has more.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The resolution specifically criticized Harvard President Claudine Gay, MIT President Sally Kornbluth, and UPenn's now former president Liz McGill for dodging the question of whether calling for the genocide of Jews on campuses violated their school's policies.
--:-- Georgia Howe: 303 members voted in support of the measure, 126 voted against it, while three voted present and two others did not vote. Of the 126 members in opposition, 125 were Democrats, while Kentucky's Thomas Massey was the lone Republican.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Republican Elise Stefanik who had grilled the presidents and introduced the measure celebrated its passage with her Republican colleagues as a historic bipartisan effort to stand for moral truth.
--:-- Elise Stefanik: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said all three university presidents were asked what should have been a very simple question And yet you saw the moral bankruptcy and the failure of those college presidents to answer that basic question got over a billion impressions globally. And I think alarmed and shocked people all across the world, not just here in America.
--:-- Georgia Howe: We've exposed anti-Semitism and called it out for what it is, and we will continue to do that as well.
--:-- John Bickley: The Ohio State Senate approved a multifaceted bill on Wednesday banning transgender medical treatments for minors and barring male athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Daily Wire senior editor Joel Needler reports.
--:-- Joel Needler: The GOP-majority statehouse agreed to some Senate-made changes to the bill before sending it to Ohio Governor Mike DeWine's desk. A spokesperson for the governor said that he would not comment on the bill until he has read it through thoroughly, though the governor has previously expressed doubts about sports restrictions and said that the decision should be left up to individual sports organizations.
--:-- John Bickley: Under the bill, things like puberty blockers for minors would be prohibited. The legislation would also require schools to designate separate teams for male and female sexes, explicitly banning males from participating in girls' and women's sports.
--:-- Joel Needler: Republican Senate President Matt Huffman says the majority of Ohioans agree with this legislation.
--:-- Matt Huffman: We don't make laws just for the hundreds of people that come and testify. We make laws for over 11 million people.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Boston's Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu has apologized for any offense caused after sending out a holiday party invitation for quote electeds of color to everyone.
--:-- John Bickley: The mayor also defended the idea after fielding heavy criticism Wu said Wednesday that white city council members were not meant to receive the invites, which were all revoked soon after being sent.
--:-- Georgia Howe: According to local news outlets, the minority-only holiday party continued as planned on Wednesday. Wu's office plans to host a party for all elected officials and cabinet members on a different day.
--:-- Michelle Wu: I think we've had individual conversations with everyone so people understand that it was truly just an honest mistake that went out in typing the email field. And I look forward to celebrating with everyone at the holiday parties that we will have besides this one as well. So it is my intention that we can, again, be a city that lives our values and create space for all kinds of communities to come together.
--:-- John Bickley: And an Australian woman has been arrested and charged over two weeks after stealing a truck full of donuts from a gas station.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Police in New South Wales, Australia, say they responded to a call at a service station on November 29th, where they were told that an unknown woman allegedly stole a truck full of donuts. The vehicle went missing for nearly 10 days before being located in a parking lot. The 28-year-old female suspect was arrested the next stay at a railway station approximately 20 miles from where the theft took place. According to police, all of the donuts in the truck were destroyed.
--:-- John Bickley: All right, those are your drive home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com. And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to our latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
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