GOP lawmakers face vote on unpopular Trump budget plan

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Businesses warn of higher costs as Donald Trump’s tariffs hit. Also, The New York Times reports DOGE cuts cost upward of $135 billion. Plus, Democrats demand answers over DOGE’s access to sensitive data. And voters sour on Trump’s handling of the economy. Rep. Chris Deluzio, Rebecca Cooke, Max Stier, Rep. Melanie Stansbury, and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0	Ali Velci is in for Lauren So Donald.
0:02.3	Hello, Ali Velci.
0:04.0	What's that show really going to be called at 7 o'clock every night?
0:07.7	The weeknight?
0:09.3	Come on.
0:10.2	You wanted more creativity for me?
0:12.3	I'm just saying, the weeknight?
0:14.5	How about it's like, the weeknight?
0:16.9	Did that do it for you?
0:18.0	So this actually makes me very happy because I said goodbye to your weekend team because the weekend comes before my show on Saturday.
0:25.1	And so I said goodbye and I had a cake in which I had the weekend written and it was rubbed out and then I had the weeknight.
0:32.3	And you weren't there.
0:34.1	But here we are.
0:35.2	But here we are.
0:35.8	So we get to actually do what we do every Saturday morning.
0:38.1	You get to sign off and I get to speak to you for a moment.
0:41.1	My favorite part of Saturday and Sunday morning.
0:43.1	I'm kind of sad because this is going to happen again all that often.
0:45.7	So I wish you the greatest of luck on that new show called Weeknight.
0:51.6	I'll miss you.
0:53.2	You miss me.
0:55.4	I'm going to go give you a hug right now.
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