4 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Amazon offers employees up to £8,000 for education and training, like Juliet. |
0:07.0 | She's now a trained technician. |
0:10.0 | And to her, the sound of machinery in need of repair, reminds her of how far she's come. |
0:18.0 | In two years, she's landed her dream job, providing her with valuable skills. |
0:23.6 | That's up to £8,000 for education and training at Amazon. Eligibility conditions apply. |
0:29.6 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. The GOP's one big, beautiful bill, |
0:41.4 | heads to the Senate as Elon Musk turns against it, calling the legislation a, quote, disgusting |
0:48.6 | abomination, unquote. Meantime Iran's supreme leader rejects a nuclear deal offered by the Trump administration. |
0:57.7 | Welcome him, Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues, editorial writers, Kate Batchelder, O'Dell, and Elliot Kaufman. |
1:07.2 | Republicans have now narrowly gotten their one big, beautiful bill, through the House, but that was only half of the battle on Capitol Hill. |
1:15.8 | Kate, what are you hearing from the Senate side now about how the upper chamber, as we say, intends to proceed on this GOP legislation and how senators might or might not try to change the details? |
1:27.7 | I'd say first off, there is a lot of pressure to keep the draft as close as possible to the |
1:32.8 | House draft because it was such a heavy lift to get that bill through the House. |
1:37.3 | But I think the Senate has its own prerogatives and should put its own policy mark on some |
1:42.4 | of the details and provisions. |
1:44.8 | For instance, |
1:50.7 | we've been expecting that the Senate would trim back the big, big deduction for state and local taxes that the House passed, $40,000, just a pure giveaway to New York and California and other |
1:55.9 | states with high income and property taxes. The Senate doesn't have the same politics there that |
2:00.7 | require that |
2:01.8 | handout. And so we've been arguing that, hey, you know, the Senate should trim this because it's |
2:06.2 | bad policy. It does nothing for economic growth and living standards or the incentive to work. |
2:10.8 | So that's an example of something that I think the Senate should do, but where there's a lot of |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 15 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Wall Street Journal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Wall Street Journal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.