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🗓️ 25 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Good morning. Sunday, May 25th. If you've been following Donald Trump's redecoration of the White House as closely as some members of my team have, |
0:14.7 | it might have been something that caught your eye over the past week. Take a look at this. Sean McCreech, |
0:19.0 | a White House correspondent for the New York Times, |
0:26.3 | posted this photo of a new piece of art that recently went up in the West Wing. It's a painting of Donald Trump with Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln and the American flag right behind him. |
0:32.9 | Now, the painting itself isn't what's actually interesting about this. Unlike most of his |
0:36.5 | predecessors, Donald Trump has not been shy about putting up images of himself all around the White House. |
0:42.1 | He's to do this all around his offices, too. Over the years, he has repeatedly compared himself |
0:46.3 | to Lincoln. So that part's not all that surprising either. In fact, as we speak, there's a giant |
0:50.9 | banner of Donald Trump's face hanging on the front of a government building overlooking the national mall right alongside a similar banner with Lincoln's image. |
1:00.7 | What's particularly interesting about this new portrait in the West Wing is the inclusion of Ronald Reagan. |
1:06.8 | And the fact that it surfaced on the same day that Republican lawmakers in the House passed Donald Trump's one big, beautiful bill, the multi-trillion dollar tax and spending package that's basically a revival of Reagan's trickle-down economics. |
1:21.5 | The reconciliation package was passed in the House by the narrowest of margins, 215 to 214. |
1:29.9 | The bill is a blueprint for a massive upward transfer of wealth, which will worsen the social and income inequalities that we've |
1:34.9 | already been dealing with for decades in America. It seeks to extend Trump's 2017 tax cuts, |
1:40.7 | which benefit the richest people in the uppermost tiers of the economic hierarchy |
1:46.6 | the most. And in order to offset the estimated $4 trillion or more that those tax cuts will cost |
1:53.9 | over the next decade, the bill would slash funding for social safety net programs that exist to help |
1:59.0 | low-income Americans. |
2:06.9 | Medicaid would see upward of $700 billion in cuts that could lead to 8.6 million people losing health care coverage. |
2:08.8 | On top of that, 3.2 million people could be kicked off SNAP. |
2:12.1 | That's the federal food assistance program that would lose about $290 billion in funding. Meanwhile, defense and military spending |
2:19.8 | are set to receive huge boosts of $150 billion. Another $150 billion will be set aside |
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