Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author,

activist, attorney, and host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View,

Channel 126. And here is today's latest and greatest breakdownable news on Thursday, May 22nd,

2025. So it's important to give you an update on what happened in the House with this

reconciliation bill. Remember, this is the big bad, bitch-ass bill that they like to call

the big beautiful bill, but it's a terrible bill. It's going to destroy the economy for so many

people who are in need. So we've renamed it. Instead of calling it the big beautiful bill, which is how

the Republicans are participating in their propagandistic approach to making this thing feel better than it is,

we're going to call it what it really is. The big bad bitch-ass bill. It's awful. I explained

to you yesterday in our podcast episode on the 21st, what was in the bill. Just know that it

basically seeks to cut every single program that

was ever designed and administered by the federal government to help people in need, which means

it's the devil's bill.

It's a budget from the pit of hell.

It's from the pit of the abyss, from the beneath the throne of Satan.

That's how evil this bill is, which means now that it has passed the house and they did

this overnight of the early morning when all the rest of us were sleeping, they did it in the dark

of night. But we are now in the light of day and it is so important that you do everything

you can to get in touch with your senators and let them know that this bill is a terrible,

awful, no good, very bad bill that is going to bring untold levels of financial

harm and hardship to people who are already suffering and struggling. Call your senators, tell them

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