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Foreign. Here you are listening to the weekend edition of the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.
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Thanks, Bill. Here's what's happening this week in America. Another shutdown, steel production up, Olympics next week and a major documentary premiere. It's all coming up. And Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, Senate Democrats voted unanimously to block a package of six funding bills that would fund large portions of the government until September, meaning we could have a partial government shutdown. The debate is going to be centered around homeland security, but ICE is funded in the one big beautiful bill. Alas, the Democrats are demanding an end to roving patrols, ensuring that federal agents are held to the same use of force policies that apply to state and local law enforcement and preventing agents from wearing masks and requiring body cameras. Republicans need the support of at least seven Democrats in the Senate to avert this shutdown. Steel production in the United States has surpassed Japan's production for the first time in 26 years. We are now the world's third largest steel producers, still ranking behind China and India. But our crude steel Production was up 3.1% last year to 82 million tons. It's the first rise in two years. We got a bronze medal in steel production, but we're going to win a lot of gold coming up next week. Very excited for the Olympics. Starting next week, 98 athletes will be there for the first time. Seven are in their fifth appearance for Team USA. 84 members of Team USA are current or former NCAA athletes. That's 36% of the roster. And the colleges that are Most represented, Minnesota, seven athletes in Boston College with six. The youngest member of Team USA is Abby Winterberger. She's a 15 year old free skier. Colorado is the state that most athletes call home. 32, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan. Throw that in the mix, you got 50% of our roster right there. Opening ceremonies are next Friday in Italy. Now we got some work to do. The country with the all time most medals in Winter Olympics is Norway. They have 406. We're number two with 330. Germany's behind us. 267. Now next Sunday got the super bowl as well. NBC is going to carry Olympics in the morning, then super bowl at night and then back to the Olympics. And all of it's going to be broadcast in 4K for the first time ever. Melania Trump has a new documentary that comes out today. The film is released on 1,500 screens across the country. It focuses on the 20 days leading up to the inauguration. Produced by Amazon MGM Studios, the directed by the director of the Rush Hour movies, Last Stand and the Family Man. The media's been saying for weeks it's gonna be a huge flop. But even Deadline, far left Deadline admitted yesterday that this could be the highest box office for a documentary in over a decade. Stick it to the left. Go see Melania. I'm Mike Slater. From the podcast Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day next.