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Democracy Now! 2025-05-23 Friday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for May 23, 2025; “Theft from On High”: Trump’s Budget Bill Guts Medicaid, Medicare & More to Pay for Tax Cuts; Mahmoud Khalil: Jailed Activist Testifies Before Immigration Judge and Holds His Child for First Time; “I Can’t Breathe”: Five Years After George Floyd’s Murder, Trump Admin Rolls Back Police Oversight; “King of the North”: New Book Examines MLK’s Fight Against Police Brutality & Racism Outside Dixie

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:17.4

We stand ready to continue our work together to deliver on the one big beautiful bill, as President Trump named it himself.

0:25.1

Nobody on the Republican side pushing this bill wants to have an in-person town hall, and look their constituents in the face and explain to them why they want to hand Elon Musk another $25 billion contract while jacking up your health insurance costs,

0:39.1

not just by hundreds, but by thousands of dollars.

0:42.4

House Republicans passed Trump's sweeping budget legislation with massive tax breaks for the rich,

0:49.5

while slashing spending for Medicaid, Medicare, food assistance, clean energy, and more.

0:55.8

The bill includes the single biggest increase in funding for immigration enforcement in

0:59.9

U.S. history. We'll speak with the nation's Chris Lehman, his article, Trump and Johnson's

1:05.5

big, ugly lie. Then detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil testifies that his asylum hearing,

1:14.2

his deportation could result in assassination, kidnapping, torture.

1:19.8

Hours before Thursday's hearing, Khalil was allowed to meet and hold his one-month-old son for the first time. We'll get an update from his lawyer,

1:30.2

Ramsey Kassim. Mahmoud has still found ways to speak out in support of Palestinian lives and

1:37.3

dignity. And there are many people who have come out in his support, in support of the Palestinian people,

1:46.1

showing that they are undeterred,

1:49.0

that they're unbound, and that they're unafraid.

1:54.6

And this Sunday marks five years since police murder George Floyd.

1:59.5

The video shocked the world and spurred a global movement for racial justice.

2:03.0

As he lay dying, Floyd gasped for air repeatedly.

2:11.8

I can't breathe, Issa. We know that George Floyd was unjustly killed by Minneapolis police officers.

2:21.6

The video has gone viral. People are outraged. This is yet another reminder that the Minneapolis Police Department has a culture of violence, specifically when it comes to their interactions with the African-American

2:27.0

community. This comes as Trump's Justice Department is just dismissed police reform and

2:32.1

oversight agreements in Minneapolis and Louisville. We'll go to Minneapolis. And finally, historian Gene Theo Harris on her new book,

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