House GOP debates how to pay for Trump's 'very pricey' agenda
The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle
MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle
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🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, Donald Trump signs off on a slew of executive orders as Republicans debate major cuts |
| 0:06.6 | to cover the cost of his massive agenda, new details on what's being considered. Then the many |
| 0:12.2 | potential crypto opportunities for the president and his family to boost their bottom lines. |
| 0:18.5 | Plus, Trump's order to end birthright citizenship is blocked. For now, |
| 0:23.2 | our legal expert is here to break it all down for us as the 11th hour gets underway on this Thursday night. |
| 0:35.4 | Good evening. Once again, I am Stephanie Rule. It is day four of the second Trump administration, |
| 0:40.3 | and the flood of executive orders shows no signs of stopping. President Trump signed several big ones today, |
| 0:47.3 | one declassifying all records in the assassinations of former president, John F. Kennedy, |
| 0:53.2 | Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin |
| 0:55.5 | Luther King Jr. Another directing his administration to evaluate the idea of having a national |
| 1:01.9 | crypto stockpile. Pay attention to that. We also got some very big developments when it comes to |
| 1:07.6 | Trump's key administration picks. John Radcliffe was sworn in as the new CIA |
| 1:11.7 | director, and the Senate voted to advance Pete Hegseth's bid to become defense secretary, 51 to 49, |
| 1:18.7 | setting up a final confirmation vote tomorrow. Two Republicans did vote no, Senator Lisa Mikowski, |
| 1:25.4 | and Susan Collins. But unless more Republicans flip from yes to no tomorrow, |
| 1:30.1 | Hegseth appears to be on track to get confirmed. Meanwhile, House Republicans are trying to figure out |
| 1:36.1 | how to pay for Trump's agenda, particularly the tax cuts and the immigration crackdown. The New York |
| 1:41.8 | Times reports they are considering things like slashing Medicaid, ending the home mortgage deduction, and even raising taxes on people who can go |
| 1:49.9 | to the gym for free at work. There can't be that many people that you can get that much money out of |
| 1:54.9 | for that one. But one of Trump's executive orders has already hit a great big roadblock. Today, |
| 1:59.7 | a federal judge temporarily |
| 2:01.3 | blocked his attempt to restrict birthright citizenship. We'll have much more on that story |
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