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Democracy Now! 2025-05-21 Wednesday

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Democracy Now!

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for May 21, 2025; “A Big, Ugly, Destructive, Deadly Bill”: Bishop William Barber Slams Bill Cutting Medicaid, Medicare; “It Is Going to Kill People”: Disability Rights Activist Speaks Out on Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”; Tax Revolt: Arjun Singh on the Roots of Trump’s Push for Massive $4.5 Trillion Tax Cut for the Rich; Trump’s Brain Drain: Scientists Look to Move Abroad as DOGE Slashes Research Funding in U.S.

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:16.0

We're going to have a bill, the one big, beautiful bill, I think it's going to be, it's the biggest

0:21.2

bill ever passed, and we've got to get it done.

0:23.5

Tremendous tax cuts for people, tremendous incentives, tremendous regulation cuts, all these

0:28.9

regulations that are so horrible.

0:31.2

President Trump makes a rare visit to Capitol Hill to push House Republicans to support

0:35.9

a sweeping budget bill that gives massive tax breaks to the rich.

0:41.0

The Congressional Budget Office says the bill will result in more than half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts,

0:48.1

in addition to sweeping cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare.

0:51.8

We'll speak to Bishop William Barber, who's been arrested twice in recent weeks protesting the cuts.

0:57.0

What they're considering right now would cost coverage, would take millions of people, not hundreds and thousands, but millions of people away from Medicaid.

1:08.0

We're talking about $880 billion in cuts over 10 years.

1:12.5

We'll also speak about the budget bill with disability rights activists

1:16.9

Julie Farrar of Adapt and reporter Arjun Singh of The Lever,

1:21.4

which has just released an auto series called The Tax Revolt on the history of the Republican anti-tax movement, then to America's brain drain.

1:32.9

I believe we're experiencing the great American health care tragedy, and it centers around a massive

1:38.5

misallocation of federal government funds. As the Trump administration slashes spending on health care and scientific research, we'll

1:47.2

look at the long-term impacts of Trump's anti-science agenda as scientists look to take their

1:54.2

research overseas.

1:56.0

All of that and more coming up.

2:07.7

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

2:13.8

Israel's military is continuing its assault on Gaza, killing at least 52 people since sunrise this morning. As Palestinian health officials warn of a growing hunger catastrophe, 80 days after Israel

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