Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Wednesday, April 30th, 2025.

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Today, what's next as Congress starts working on Trump's legislative priorities.

Plus, there's a bill on the way dealing with deep fake pornography. And we discuss

complicated hopes for a coal revival. Over the next few weeks, lawmakers will craft a sweeping

package of President Donald Trump's priorities for taxes, border security, energy, and more that

they will eventually try to pass along party lines. I spoke with USA Today's senior Congress reporter

Riley Began for more on what to expect. Hey, Riley. Hey, how you doing? Good, thanks for wrap it on.

So big few weeks ahead. First, how did we get to this point? Refresh us on the budget blueprint

passed earlier this month. And I guess was it a direct version of President Trump's goals and

priorities? It has been quite the journey just to get to this point. Since the president

took office in January, Congress has been working on, actually even before he took office,

has been working on setting the stage for his sweeping agenda on the Hill. This is going to be an expansive bill

that touches on a lot of different parts of his agenda. So the marquee piece of this is going to be

extending the 2017 tax cuts and then additional policies, like eliminating taxes on tips, on

overtime, on social security payments. So the tax portion is going to be huge here. And then in

addition to that, there will be elements of border security policy, domestic energy production,

and additional defense spending. We know we'll also likely be hearing a lot about Medicaid in the coming weeks. What's at stake?

There are different cohorts of the Republican conference who want different things out of this bill.

It's going to be really expensive because of those tax portions that I told you about.

And the fiscal conservatives want cuts that are going to balance that out at least a little bit.

And we're talking trillions and trillions of dollars of spending.

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