Lawrence: Trump's budget bill has created a 'legislative suicide pact' for House Republicans

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Democrats say the CBO finds Trump’s budget bill contains $500 billion in Medicare cuts. Also, Senate Democrats question Trump’s IRS pick on ethical issues. Plus, Reuters reports $98 million in U.S. food aid is rotting in warehouses after the Trump-Musk cuts to USAID. And Jonathan Capehart discusses his new memoir, “Yet Here I Am: Lessons from A Black Man’s Search for Home.” Rep. Brendan Boyle, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, Jonathan Landay, and Jonathan Capehart join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hey, Lawrence. Hey, Jen. Jonathan Capart's going to
0:04.8	join me at the end of the hour. I was at the 92nd Streetwide with him tonight with a big audience
0:09.7	discussing his book, which is just wonderful. He's a dear friend who I thought I knew, and I did,
0:16.6	but there's so much more that we learn about him in this book and so much more we learn about our country.
0:24.2	And it's just a wonderful book.
0:26.3	And I can't wait to get to that discussion with him.
0:28.7	I can't wait to watch it.
0:30.3	The book is incredible.
0:31.8	It tells such a beautiful story about his own journey here and all the challenges and the self-doubts and we just learn a lot
0:40.2	more about him and he's a wonderful person. I get to work with him in the bureau, so I have that over you.
0:44.6	Yeah, you are like, I just feel, he's one of those people you just feel lucky to know him. And we're
0:49.7	lucky to have him here tonight. No doubt about it. Thanks, Jen. Thank you, Lawrence. Well, at this hour,
0:56.3	the Republicans and the House representatives are desperately trying to figure out how to pass a bill
1:00.6	that Donald Trump urged them to vote for today, apparently not realizing that if Republicans do pass
1:06.8	this bill, they will lose the House of Representatives in the next election, and that would once again
1:15.7	expose Donald Trump to the possibility of being impeached by the House of Representatives
1:22.8	when it is controlled by the Democrats. Donald Trump will have two years of impeachment exposure there
1:30.4	with Akeem Jeffries as the possible next speaker of the House representatives. If the Republicans
1:36.7	managed to do what they're trying to do tonight, that will be partly the result. Donald Trump plays politics. The way he does
1:46.7	everything else. Immediate gratification, no long-term planning. That is apparently how Donald Trump
1:52.9	ended up alone in a hotel room with porn star Sturmy Daniels, which eventually led to him being
1:57.5	convicted 34 felonies in the aftermath of that particular pursuit of instant gratification with no long-term planning.
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