How's Trump's big bill could affect you

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

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Congress is racing to pass President Trump's big domestic policy bill by July 4. Yale Budget Lab Martha Gimbel explains the potential long-term impacts of the tax cuts and spending provisions. And, the bill includes roughly $150 billion for immigration enforcement, a third of it for new detention centers. The Intercept's Matt Sledge joins us to talk about what this means for Trump's deportation policies. Then, child care costs continue to climb for families with young children. There is bipartisan support for making child care more affordable, but it's still too expensive. The 19th's Chabeli Carrazana explains why this is and what possible solutions exist.

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0:30.4	You are seeing tax cuts that are really tilted towards the top and spending cuts that are really going to hit the bottom.
0:40.1	How the massive tax and spending bill making its way through Congress may take from the
0:45.2	poor to give to the rich.
1:00.8	It's Wednesday, July 2nd, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR Boston.
1:03.6	I'm Ashley Locke, filling in for Chris Benley.
1:10.8	Today on the show, we dig into how the bill could also supercharge immigration enforcement.
1:16.7	And broad bipartisan support exists for making child care more affordable.
1:19.0	So why is it still so expensive?
1:26.3	The reason it's different from K-12 education is that we don't have substantial government funding and subsidy for child care.
1:28.2	So it ends up falling on the parents.
1:34.7	But first, the president's entire legislative agenda is wrapped up in this big, beautiful bill, as he calls it.
1:36.6	The legislation will touch everyone in the country, cutting taxes and slashing social
1:41.6	safety net programs.
1:43.7	Scott Tong gets a sense of that with Martha Gimble.
1:46.0	She's executive director and co-founder of the Budget Lab at Yale,
1:51.0	a nonpartisan research center that put together analysis on the bill's impacts.
1:56.0	You are seeing tax cuts that are really tilted towards the top and spending cuts that are really going
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