Welcome to the Beat. I'm Ari Melbert. We have a big show tonight, Harvard, continuing its class

with what it calls illegal crackdowns by the Trump administration, now trying to ban new foreign

students from even coming to join that elite university, something that generally benefits America.

Also coming up tonight, we're being down from the New York Times on the beat. But we begin

with one of the largest grifts in White House history.

It's a tale, really, of two Americas as the president reaps money and gifts for himself,

while demanding sacrifice by most Americans paying still higher prices for the ongoing tariffs.

Trump also pocketing many millions by blatantly granting access to people who buy about a million dollars

a piece of crypto, his crypto.

Trump's hosting a dinner for them in about an hour tonight.

The top 25 of the 22, 220, I should say, buyers will get a White House tour tomorrow.

The hall, $394 million has been spent already on that so-called

Trump coin. And this is the backdrop for the new MAGA budget, which sends more money to

billionaires while slashing health care for most regular people. Now, most Republicans are

celebrating that priority set. There were some dissenters, but that's the budget coming out of the House, even as others worry.

The health care cuts may have gone if they passed through the Senate way too far.

If any of this sounds like the worst nightmare depiction of Trump in charge, well, that's because it is in its outlines and its warning what Democrats said he would do during the campaign.

He wants the middle class to pay the price for another huge tax cut that would mostly help him and his rich friends.

Trump also trading access for the American presidency,

according to all the experts and lawyers who work in this field,

who study this kind of thing.

So they've said the plan you see on your screen,

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