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CNN 5 Things

GOP at odds, Qatar jet narrative, thousands of chicks abandoned & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump is trying to bring two groups of House Republicans in line. Severe weather is bringing a tornado risk to areas already badly hit. There are questions about whether Qatar offered the US a jet, or if the Trump administration asked for it. We’ll tell you why a Democratic congresswoman has been charged. Plus, 12,000 chicks were left in a postal truck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:14.0

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0:18.0

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0:31.2

Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, May 20th.

0:38.4

President Donald Trump is meeting with Republican lawmakers today to get them to support

0:43.2

his sweeping tax and spending bill. House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to get it passed by the

0:48.6

Memorial Day recess, but some hardliners are holding out.

0:52.7

CNN's Lauren Fox says two groups of lawmakers are asking for very different things.

0:58.0

One of which comes from some of these Republicans who are running for re-election in swing districts,

1:04.0

say that the issue of increasing this salt cap, as they call it, that state and local tax deduction,

1:10.0

is crucial for their re-election.

1:12.6

They're also arguing that further cuts to Medicaid could endanger their constituents and therefore endanger their own political futures.

1:19.6

Meanwhile, you have some of these conservatives.

1:22.6

They want to see an increase in how quickly they are moving forward with Medicaid work requirements. So right now, you have two different factions of the Republican Party, both asking for different things.

1:33.3

And so this is crunch time, this is where they have to make those final negotiations.

1:36.3

It's just not clear what direction leadership's going to go.

1:39.3

And Trump putting his thumb on the scale this morning could have a big impact, but we'll have to see.

1:50.7

A relentless stretch of severe weather that's killed at least 28 people and unleashed destruction across the central and eastern U.S. is not over yet. More than 7 million people are under

1:57.1

a tornado risk today, as the severe weather shifts east towards parts of the Mississippi,

2:02.9

Ohio, and Tennessee valleys. That includes areas already battered by the spring storms,

2:09.2

like western Kentucky and western Tennessee. In St. Louis, Missouri, five people have lost their lives.

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