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🗓️ 1 May 2025
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0:00.0 | I'm making a robot head with an Amazon box. |
0:03.0 | I've painted it silver and Daddy helped me make it. |
0:05.0 | At Amazon, we're actually using paper bags for more of our deliveries. |
0:08.0 | And now I'm making a paper hot air balloon |
0:11.0 | and I even made a little brown basket |
0:13.0 | and I'm making a dog that looks just like Monty. |
0:16.0 | Just one of the ways we've reduced the weight of our packaging by more than 40% since 2015, |
0:20.0 | which is still good for playtime. |
0:22.6 | Mom, where's the scissors? To learn more, visit about amazon.com.com at UK forward slash sustainability. |
0:32.6 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
0:41.5 | Contrary to reports of its demise, |
0:47.6 | the U.S. Congress still exists, and it may actually matter what happens this year as it passes or tries to pass legislation in the first year of the Trump administration. The House is moving |
0:52.8 | various planks of its giant tax and spending |
0:55.8 | bill and some of the early signs, believe it or not, are promising for government reform. |
1:00.9 | That could be more lasting than Elon Musk's Doge project. We shall see, of course, plus Donald |
1:08.7 | Trump, Sacks, National Security Council advisor Mike Walts and his deputy, Alex Wong. What does that mean for Trump foreign policy? Those are our subjects for today here on Potomac Watch. I'm Paul as you go, the editor of the Wall Street Journal opinion pages. This is our daily podcast. I'm here today with my colleagues, Kim Strassel and Kate |
1:29.6 | Batchelder O'Dell. So many of these planks are moving. As I said, let's listen to Mike Johnson, |
1:36.1 | the speaker, talk about how things are going. We have seven committees marking up components of the |
1:41.0 | Big Beautiful Bill this week. We have four others next week. That third week that we return, the budget committee will merge all that together into the one big beautiful bill. And you will see the results. We are going to preserve the programs. We're not gutting Medicaid. We're going to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse, which every single American should be applauding. The Democrats should as well, but they're not allowing themselves to do it. And we're going to make sure it works better. We're going to preserve the program, not cut it. |
2:04.1 | It's exactly the opposite of what the Democrats are saying. So the states will adjust to all these things, |
2:09.5 | and we will make sure that the people who need these benefits and rely upon them are protected. |
2:14.4 | Okay? That's the whole thing. |
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