How The Megabill Will Change America

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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After months of debate, weeks of tense negotiations and 24 hours of Republican arm-twisting, President Trump has muscled his giant domestic-policy bill through both chambers of Congress. It’s a major legislative victory for the president that paves the way for much of his second-term agenda, and it will have profound impacts across the country. The Times journalists Tony Romm, Andrew Duehren and Margot Sanger-Katz discuss what the legislation changes, and those whose lives it will change the most.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavarro. This is the Daily.
0:05.5	On this vote, the Yeaser 218, the Naser 214, the motion is adopted.
0:15.0	USA!
0:15.8	USA!
0:16.9	USA!
0:19.0	USA!
0:21.6	After months of emotional debate,
0:25.6	weeks of tense negotiations,
0:27.6	and 24 hours of aggressive Republican arm-twisting,
0:31.6	President Trump has muscled his giant domestic policy bill
0:35.6	through both chambers of Congress.
0:38.4	There could be no better birthday president for America than the phenomenal victory we achieved
0:43.8	just hours ago when Congress passed a one big, beautiful bill to make America great again.
0:51.3	It's a major legislative victory for the president that paves the way for much of his second-term
0:57.5	agenda, and it will have profound impacts across the country.
1:04.6	Today, what the legislation changes and who it changes it for.
1:14.4	It's a, July 4th.
1:22.5	President Trump called it the one big beautiful bill for a reason.
1:27.0	It's a sprawling octopus of a bill. It spans
1:30.5	nearly 1,000 pages. It encompasses trillions of dollars in new spending and spending cuts,
1:36.9	and its tentacles will touch and remake entire industries, reorient the role of the government,
1:43.2	and alter the lives of tens of millions of Americans.
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