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Congresswoman Sarah McBride

Next Question with Katie Couric

Katie Couric Media

News, Health, Society & Culture, Commentary, Documentary,, Health & Fitness

4.44.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Katie sits down with Congresswoman Sarah McBride, the first openly trans person in Congress, for a wide-ranging conversation about her tumultuous first year on Capitol Hill. They talk about the chaos of Trump's second term, the potential release of the Epstein files, and the role trans rights played in the last Presidential election. McBride also opens up about hope, the future of the Democratic party, and why hard conversations are essential to maintaining our democracy.

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Donald Trump created an unholy alliance with tech oligarchs and billionaires.

1:09.7

He said, you fund my campaign and facilitate my

1:12.0

consolidation of power, and I will pay you off with massive tax breaks. Over the last 10 months,

1:18.0

he has destroyed these life-saving programs. He's gutted food assistance. He's passed the largest

1:24.9

cut to health care in American history, all to create a piggy bank that he can then raid to fund just partially those tax breaks for billionaires.

1:33.0

I first met Representative Sarah McBride at the DNC in 2016 when she became the first openly trans person to take the stage at a political party's national convention.

1:44.3

We got to know each other a little bit better when she came to a screening of a documentary I had done a year later called Gender Revolution, which examined our changing notion of gender identity.

1:57.5

Well, since then, she has served four years as a Delaware state senator, and now is the first openly trans person in Congress.

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