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🗓️ 20 June 2025
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Let's talk about the GOP fighting over Trump's bill....
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0:00.0 | Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bell again. So today, we're going to talk about the |
0:08.0 | Republican infighting on Capitol Hill. There is now a virtually 0% chance that the version of the |
0:15.6 | one big beautiful bill that came out of the house becomes law. All of those hard-fought compromises that Speaker Johnson |
0:22.7 | worked out were basically tossed aside in the Senate, but don't celebrate yet. The Senate version |
0:29.8 | is actually worse in some respects. The good news is that it's so bad, even some Republicans |
0:36.6 | are freaking out at the political |
0:38.5 | implications. Senator Thune wants to start around Wednesday of next week on trying to push |
0:44.8 | the Senate version through. He's facing massive pushback from the very Republican senators |
0:50.8 | he expects to vote for it, who feel completely ignored after seeing the text. |
0:56.6 | They raised concerns about the House version having Medicaid cuts that were too deep. |
1:02.6 | The Senate version is actually deeper. |
1:06.1 | And the term being used by Republicans to describe how they feel is blindsided. |
1:12.2 | Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri said, quote, |
1:16.1 | I had no idea they were going to completely scrap the House framework like this. |
1:21.8 | This totally caught me by surprise, and I've talked to other senators, |
1:26.5 | and that's what I've heard consistently from everybody I've talked to other senators, and that's what I've heard consistently from |
1:29.2 | everybody I've talked to. All Democrats and some Republicans, at least those that understand math, |
1:37.1 | have pointed out that the cuts are so deep that they will cause a lot of hospitals to close. |
1:43.1 | So even those people not on Medicaid may lose their current level of access to health care. |
1:50.1 | Beyond the Senate, a number of House Republicans are already trashing the Senate plan, |
1:55.9 | especially when it comes to cuts to Biden's green energy credits. |
2:00.7 | Cutting those will scrap investment in a lot of |
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