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PBS News Hour - Full Show

June 4, 2025 – PBS News Hour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Wednesday on the News Hour, the White House escalates its global trade war as the president doubles tariffs on aluminum and steel. The Trump administration revokes hospital guidance regarding emergency abortions for women whose health is in danger. Plus, a Georgia teenager fights deportation after ICE officials detain her following a mistaken traffic stop. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett.

0:06.0

And I'm Omna Navaz. On the news hour tonight, the White House escalates its global trade war

0:11.5

as the president doubles tariffs on aluminum and steel.

0:15.2

The Trump administration revokes hospital guidance regarding emergency abortions for women whose health is in danger.

0:21.6

And a Georgia teenager fights deportation after ICE officials detain her following a mistaken traffic stop.

0:28.6

I was very fearful of what my future may hold because I know how immigration looks right now.

0:55.3

Welcome to the News Hour. We begin tonight with a new estimate of how much President Trump's spending and tax cut bill would cost and its potential impact on health care coverage.

1:00.5

The independent, nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, projects that the bill would

1:05.8

add $2.4 trillion overall to the deficit over the next decade. And it estimates that changes to Medicaid

1:12.9

and other health coverage would leave nearly 11 million Americans uninsured by 2034. The one big,

1:19.5

beautiful bill, as it's called, would reduce federal government spending by nearly $1.3 trillion.

1:24.7

And the CBO found that by extending President Trump's 2017 tax cuts,

1:30.1

the bill would cut taxes by $3.75 trillion over the next decade.

1:35.5

The measure awaits action in the Senate after it passed the House last month without Democratic support.

1:41.5

Today, House Republicans shrugged off the CBO score.

1:45.4

Go back to 2017. You don't need to go back that far to see how wrong the CBO has been

1:51.5

when it comes time to make prognostications on economic growth. They've always been wrong

1:57.8

and they've always ignored what tax cuts will do to grow the American economy.

2:03.3

Senate Democratic leadership, meanwhile, said there would be real-world consequences to people's health care.

2:10.0

People will fall through the cracks and get phased out of coverage in the coming years.

2:14.9

Death by a thousand paper cuts. The CBO also released a separate analysis

2:21.6

today about the impact of President Trump's tariffs. It projects current tariff policies would

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