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Democracy Now! 2025-12-30 Tuesday

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Democracy Now!

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for December 30, 2025; “Whatever Israel Wants”: Trump Backs Netanyahu’s “Colonial” Wars in Gaza, Iran & Beyond; “Israel Crushed Mohammad Bakri”: Gideon Levy & Rami Khouri on Death of Iconic Palestinian Filmmaker; Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults; The Debt Collective Lays Out Other Options; Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess

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0:00.0

From New York, this is democracy now.

0:17.5

We talked about Hamas and we talked about disarmament.

0:24.9

And they're going to be given a very short period of time to disarm.

0:27.5

And we'll see how that works out.

0:35.5

But if they don't disarm, as they agreed to do, they agreed to it, and then they'll be held to pay for them.

0:37.6

And we don't want that.

0:43.5

President Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-Lago,

0:50.7

warning Hamas to disarm even as Israel's repeatedly violated the so-called Gaza ceasefire with near-daily attacks.

0:53.5

Trump also expressed support for Israel's threats to launch

0:57.2

new attacks on Iran. We'll speak with Palestinian American journalist Ramehuri and Israeli reporter

1:06.4

Gidem Levy. Then, as millions struggle with rising food and living costs, the Trump administration's

1:14.6

plans to resume garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default.

1:20.6

Donald Trump ran promising to abolish the Department of Education. He's actually turning it into the

1:25.6

Department of Debt Collection. We'll speak with Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and the former

1:34.1

student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

1:39.3

Also starting January 1st, health care course expected to double or triple for millions across the United

1:46.9

States.

1:47.6

The elimination of the enhanced premium tax credits and the Affordable Care Act will cause

1:54.0

millions and millions of people to lose coverage, probably 12 million.

1:58.5

Already people in the United States owe about $200 billion in medical debt.

2:04.6

We can only expect that debt to increase.

2:08.0

We'll look at what's at stake with Elizabeth Benjamin, Community Service Society,

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