"It's a head scratcher." The Reporters' Roundtable. May 23, 2025
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🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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More Tariff Chaos. Public Feeling It? Markets Not Happy. Big “Beautiful” Bill. It’s Chances in the Senate. Trump’s Crypto Corruption. The Used 747 Bribe. White House Shakedowns. The End of the Penny. With Emily Goodin, Senior White House Correspondent for DailyMail.com, Jason Dick, Editor-in-chief of CQ-Roll Call and Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-chief of the National Journal.
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| 1:04.8 | Hello, hello, and welcome back to our regular edition of the Reporter's Roundtable here on the Bill Press 5. |
| 1:13.6 | It's good to be back with you after running off the Rome to greet the approval, or the arrival, rather not the approval, of Pope Leo the 14th. |
| 1:21.4 | And my first week back in the United States proved to be yet another wild week in Trump, too. |
| 1:27.4 | Even though the Constitution expressly |
| 1:30.2 | prohibits presidents from accepting gifts from foreign leaders without the approval of Congress, |
| 1:35.5 | President Trump this week accepted the gift of a $400 million, 747 luxury plane from the government |
| 1:43.1 | of Qatar, which gives new meaning to the phrase, I guess, |
| 1:47.9 | fly the friendly skies. Based on videos of violence taken in the Congo, Trump accused South Africa |
| 1:55.4 | of genocide. The administration banned Harvard from admitting any foreign students. |
| 2:06.0 | The president hosted dinner for some 200 wealthy investors who bought his meme coin, |
| 2:11.5 | and the Treasury Department announced it had produced its last penny. |
| 2:19.4 | Meanwhile, fiscal conservatives in the House passed Trump's one big, beautiful bill, which, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will balloon the national debt by over $3 trillion. |
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