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The Beat with Ari Melber

GOP "eyes" gutting Medicare, social security as some threaten debt default

The Beat with Ari Melber

MSNBC

Government, Daily News, Politics, News

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Wednesday, January 25 and reports on the debt ceiling fight in Congress, with some in the GOP eyeing cuts to Medicare, social security. Plus, Memphis police under fire with calls for criminal charges in the death of Tyre Nichols who died after being pulled over for a traffic stop. Eugene Robinson, Jason Johnson, Fmr. Sen. Byron Dorgan and Maya Wiley join.

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0:00.0

from our email and we are reporting live from somewhere

0:03.5

as the saying goes specifically washington

0:05.8

congress under new management after the bruising fight to elect speaker mccarthy

0:09.5

and for all the talk

0:11.2

among the op-hard liners about how that clash remember they said that would

0:14.6

really change things

0:16.3

it would up and the dc games are ushering a more accountable less swampy

0:20.0

leadership

0:21.2

that's what they said

0:22.7

well tonight for top republicans i can tell you its business is usually the

0:25.6

same playbook the republican party used

0:27.9

during the last time the democrats were in the white house and they had

0:31.1

the congress

0:32.3

it's the brink'smanship that can rattle the economy and some concerns argue

0:35.9

actually hurts them to that it drags down the gop in the long run

0:39.4

i'm talking about another threat to exploit the financial rules and govern by

0:43.0

rancin

0:44.4

the story involves some beltway jargon that you've probably heard before

0:48.4

the once routine process where congress confirms

0:52.2

the spending that's already passed

0:54.2

raising

0:55.3

the debt ceiling

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