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Bulwark Takes

GOP in Total Chaos Over “Big, Beautiful Bill”

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein is joined by HuffPost’s Arthur Delaney to break down the infighting among Republicans over Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful” budget bill, highlighting the deep divisions over tax cuts, Medicaid reductions, and whether the plan has any real chance of passing.

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0:00.0

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0:21.6

managing editor at the Bork and I'm joined by a friend of the show. It's been way too long since we've had him back. I've missed him tremendously. I'm sure you have two. The one, the only Arthur Delaney of Huffpost. Is it still Huffpost? Because you got a new logo and I don't know if you have a new name.

0:36.3

Still HuffPost, right?

0:37.1

Still HuffPost, slightly different shade of green.

0:40.1

I noticed. Huff Post because you got a new logo and I don't know if you have a new name. It's still Huff Post, right? Still Huff Post, slightly different shade of green.

0:40.1

I noticed.

0:41.5

Arthur, thank you so much for doing this.

0:43.6

We're going to get into what appears to be a coming calamity, although you never know

0:48.2

with these things.

0:49.6

They always change.

0:50.5

But at this moment, at 4.38 p.m. on Thursday, May 15th, it appears to be a coming

0:59.4

calamity for the House Republicans as they consider Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill.

1:05.8

It's called the one big beautiful bill, and it will be the biggest bill ever passed in our country's history.

1:11.7

Again, caveats galore.

1:13.9

It is a rapidly changing environment.

1:17.6

We just don't know where we're going to be in two hours from now.

1:20.3

But what is the current state of play in as simple English as you can give it?

1:26.7

So it's not changing that rapidly.

1:30.0

What's happening now is that the dynamic within the House among Republicans

1:36.0

is coming to a head as they reach do-or-die moments on their big, beautiful bill.

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