How Democrats Will Make Trump Own His Disastrous Spending Bill

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

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Now that President Donald Trump has gotten exactly what he wanted, and signed his major domestic tax and policy agenda into law, what should Democrats do now? Poll after poll has shown the legislation is wildly unpopular, but also that voters don’t know a ton about it. The legislation is projected to strip millions of people of health care and food assistance over the next decade. And for Democrats, tying Republicans to the law’s most unpopular provisions will be imperative to their hopes of regaining power in Congress in next year’s midterm elections. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joins us to talk about how Democrats plan to respond, both to Trump’s big beautiful disaster of a law and to the onslaught of attacks from the Trump administration more broadly. And in headlines: Texas officials said they’ve confirmed more than 100 deaths from Friday’s devastating floods, Trump announced new 25 percent tariffs on Japan and South Korea, and immigration officers staged another massive show of force in Los Angeles.

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, July 8th. I'm Jane Koston. This is Waday. The show thinking about how President
0:07.5	Donald Trump invited Israel's prime minister over for dinner last night. The pair celebrated their
0:12.4	attacks on Iran and Benjamin Netanyahu went for the full press flatter, presenting Trump
0:18.0	with a nomination letter for the Nobel Peace Prize,
0:21.6	because he's the poster child of peace.
0:25.2	Sure.
0:26.4	We'll have more coverage of the dinner later this week.
0:34.3	On today's show, President Donald Trump is back on his tariff bullshit, and immigration officers
0:39.9	stage yet another massive show of force in Los Angeles. But let's start with the big question
0:45.6	you might be asking yourself right now. After Trump got exactly what he wanted and signed his
0:50.5	big Republican spending bill debacle disaster adventure into law on the 4th of July,
0:54.7	what should Democrats do now? As far as I can tell, this was not the present voters were hoping for
1:01.2	on America's birthday. Markedly, few people are actually happy about it, even conservatives.
1:07.6	Because as we've talked about on this show a whole lot over the past few weeks, the legislation
1:12.3	is a debacle and a disaster for poor and working-class Americans. It's really good for the very
1:18.0	wealthy, and are very brave car dealership owners, though, and Alaskan whaling captains. And
1:24.4	Democratic voters are pissed, like really, really pissed. Like, House Democrats are telling Axios their constituents have told them, quote,
1:33.8	what we really need to do is be willing to get shot when visiting immigration detention centers.
1:39.6	Yes, Democrats are in the minority in both chambers, which limits what they can actually get done right now.
1:45.0	Elections matter. But a lot of Democratic voters don't care because they remember congressional
1:50.4	Republicans in the minority seemingly running roughshod over whatever presidents, Barack Obama and Joe Biden
1:55.4	wanted to do. And as they keep seeing the Trump administration trying to deport folks for thought
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