3545 - Trump's Health Care Emergency 'Sounds Bad,' SCOTUS Update w/ Mark Joseph Stern

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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It's Fun Day Monday on the Majority Report

On today's program:

As ACA subsidies expire, 24 million Americans facing massive increases in health care premiums. Trump is asked what his message is to those 24 million Americans and he replies with "don't make it sound so bad" and accusing the reporter of being a "sycophant for Democrats".

Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer at Slate covering law and the courts, joins Sam and Emma to discuss the Supreme Court's recent activity and the key cases to watch in 2026.

In the Fun Half:

In the wake of Rob and Michelle Reiner's murder, Donald Trump posts on truth social a deranged and tasteless rant about Rob Reiner having "Trump derangement Syndrome".

Erika Kirk joins Bari Weiss for a town hall that was a total crap show.

Dave Rubin spends 10 minutes on a segment about how Megyn Kelly unfollowed him on X and isn't responding to his texts, but he doesn't care because he has so many friends. It literally doesn't matter to him.

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0:00.0	It is Monday, December 15th of 2025.
0:13.2	My name is Sam Cedar.
0:14.4	This is the five-time award-winning majority report.
0:17.8	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.
0:30.5	On the program today, Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer covering courts and the Law for Slate and co-host of the Amicus podcast.
0:41.6	So we look at the most recent rulings by the Supreme Court and get a preview of 2026.
0:50.7	Also on the program today, at least 15 killed at a shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia.
0:59.3	Two killed and nine injured in a shooting at Brown University.
1:06.7	House to vote on Wednesday, expected to reject Affordable Care Act subsidy extension,
1:16.4	shattering the health care market, potentially leaving millions without health care,
1:22.8	starting in just about two weeks.
1:28.4	Meanwhile, Senate bracing for another government shutdown in about a month.
1:39.6	Most conservative government in about 35 years wins in Chile's presidential election.
1:48.6	And we're back.
1:52.8	Measles cases top 1900 as it spreads rapidly in South Carolina.
2:02.3	Federal appeals court allows Trump to continue to withhold reimbursement payments to
2:08.0	plan parenthood.
2:10.5	Rob Reiner and wife stabbed to death, son in custody.
2:15.3	Awful.
2:16.6	And two Army National Guard, U.S. Army National Guard killed in Syria.
2:23.8	It's a rough weekend.
2:25.0	Yes, we still have troops in Syria.
	...

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