After Trump’s Big Bill – Death by a thousand tax cuts

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Donald Trump’s bill, we won’t be calling it beautiful, which takes from the poor and gives to the rich has passed into law. What’s in it and how easily did it get through Congress? Dr Colin Provost is an associate professor of public policy at University College London and joins the panel to get into it. Plus, Palestine Action has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK government. Has this gone too far and what does this say about our right to protest in the UK, if anything? And in the Extra Bit FOR EVERYONE this week, is Angela Rayner’s Employment Rights Bill an attack on banter? Sign up to our Patreon to get the Extra Bit exclusively for subscribers every week! Escape Routes: • Colin recently read Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work • Zoe recently watched America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy’s Cheerleaders on Netflix • Ros watched Saltburn now it’s on iPlayer • Dorian has been watching Such Brave Girls Follow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Zoë Grünewald. Audio Production by: Tom Taylor. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.0	Welcome to Oh God What Now, the big beautiful politics podcast. I'm Doreen Linsky. On today's show, President Trump has signed his flagship one big beautiful bill into law. What's in it? How did it sail through Congress? And is that all there is to Trump's legislative agenda? Plus, the UK government has prescribed the group Palestine action as a terrorist organisation, causing enormous unease across the political spectrum.
1:13.2	Is this a step too far, limiting our right to protest?
1:16.7	And in the extra bit, which we're making available to everyone this week,
1:19.7	not just Patreon people,
1:21.1	the Telegraph wants you to think that Angela Rainer's employment rights bill
1:23.9	spells the end for workplace banter.
1:25.8	You might even welcome the end of workplace banter,
1:28.7	but is it really? Let's meet today's panel. First, it's all through the future of trust and host a
1:33.6	more jam tomorrow. Ros Taylor. Hi, Ros. After months of irritating I know Masque with facts,
1:38.9	X's AI chatbot GROC has been reprogrammed, at least temporarily as a Nazi, praising Hitler and seeming to call for a new final solution in a glib trollish tone, suspiciously similar to Musk's own.
1:51.2	He then apologised for its funny turn and said, obviously, Hitler was a bad man.
1:56.0	What on earth? Can you understand what caused this change of tone and content?
2:01.5	Well, the first sign that something was going to go wrong was when Musk announced on Friday, I think, that we have improved GROC significantly, he said.
2:10.5	And it turned out that what he had to try to do was to tweak the algorithm, to make it less PC, you know, less woke.
2:19.4	To speak its mind.
2:20.0	Well, he's so many succeeded in that.
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