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🗓️ 22 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Hi there, from CNN, I'm Charlie Drever, with the five things you need to know for Thursday, May 22nd. |
0:09.0 | The House has passed President Donald Trump's sweeping domestic policy bill in a close 215 to 214 vote. |
0:18.0 | The legislation still faces major challenges ahead, as it now heads to the Senate, |
0:23.2 | where Republicans have signaled that their planning are making some changes. But today, |
0:28.5 | CNN's Lauren Fox says all eyes are on House Speaker Mike Johnson. |
0:32.8 | This is a huge victory where Speaker Johnson was able to bring some of the moderates together, |
0:37.4 | some of those swing district, New York was able to bring some of the moderates together, some |
0:37.6 | of those swing district, New York Republicans together, and members of the House Freedom |
0:42.4 | Caucus. |
0:43.4 | And he did this in a couple of different ways. |
0:45.4 | One, he gave the House Freedom Caucus what they wanted, which was expediting how quickly |
0:49.4 | work requirements for Medicaid went into effect. |
0:53.0 | And then of course, for some of those New York moderates, |
0:56.0 | there was an increase in how much people in their districts can deduct in state and local taxes. |
1:01.0 | So this was a huge effort where every single move you make as a Republican leader, |
1:06.0 | you're going to win some votes and you're going to lose some votes on the other side. |
1:10.0 | So a very delicate negotiation. |
1:11.6 | More details are emerging about the shooting that killed two Israeli embassy staff members in Washington, D.C. last night. |
1:19.6 | The victims have been identified by Israel's ambassador to the U.S. as Yorin Lyszynski and Sarah Milgram, |
1:26.6 | a young couple planning to get engaged. |
1:29.3 | Police have named the sole suspect as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, who they say |
1:35.6 | chanted, quote, Free Free Palestine while in custody, and is now being questioned. |
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