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🗓️ 23 May 2025
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0:00.0 | From the Trump administration's latest move against Harvard University to House Republicans narrowly passing their massive spending and tax cut bill, lots to discuss tonight with Brooks and K-Part. |
0:11.2 | That's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan K. Part, associate editor of the Washington Post. Welcome, gentlemen. |
0:17.2 | So House Republicans this week managed to pass their version of President Trump's |
0:21.8 | legislative agenda, a massive bill that passed by one vote. Jonathan, this bill extends the Trump |
0:27.2 | tax cuts. But to pay for them, it cuts Medicaid. It slashes food stamps. It rolls back the Biden |
0:33.6 | clean energy agenda. What does this bill say about Republican priorities? |
0:43.8 | Well, you know, when Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House, she has two favorite sayings. One involves Lincoln. The other one is, show me your budget, and I'll show you |
0:47.7 | your priorities. And what this budget shows is that Republicans are hell-bent on financing tax cuts for the upper income at the expense |
0:59.0 | of middle-class, working class, and poor Americans. |
1:02.0 | And it's something that House Republicans are going to have to explain to their constituents. |
1:09.0 | Because if you look over on the Senate side, particularly I saw a clip of Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, |
1:15.2 | no liberal at all railing against the deficit impacts of what the House has passed. |
1:22.6 | The deficit impacts and the Medicaid cuts in particular. |
1:25.9 | That's tricky politics for Republicans because there are now so many more people on Medicaid cuts in particular. That's tricky politics for Republicans |
1:27.7 | because there are now so many more people on Medicaid |
1:30.3 | over the past eight years. |
1:32.9 | Medicaid enrollment has surged to a record high |
1:34.9 | and more red states have skin in the game, |
1:36.7 | more Trump supporters. |
1:37.7 | How do you see this playing out? |
1:38.9 | Yeah, and a lot of those rural hospitals really demand that, |
1:41.2 | and if they shut down, there's not a lot of options out there. |
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