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Beau of The Fifth Column

Let's talk about Trump and the GOP identity crisis....

Beau of The Fifth Column

Beau of The Fifth Column

Society & Culture

4.8965 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about Trump and the GOP identity crisis....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

0:04.8

So today, we're going to talk about Trump and the GOP identity crisis.

0:11.0

We're getting more and more information about how the one big beautiful bill is shaping up to affect the country.

0:18.1

First, can we just stop for a moment to acknowledge that the Ways and Means Committee actually

0:23.9

name their package the one big beautiful bill, in all caps.

0:29.1

Some might think they're making fun of Trump and don't think he'll pick up on it.

0:33.8

But the name isn't important.

0:35.9

The content of the reconciliation plan is.

0:38.3

It's all over the place.

0:41.3

In an attempt to make everybody happy,

0:43.3

Speaker Johnson may end up making nobody happy.

0:47.3

And based on early numbers,

0:49.3

I'm certain of one place that will be unhappy.

0:52.3

Senator Holly has said the Republican Party is having an

0:56.7

identity crisis. Yeah, he's about eight years late, but he's saying it publicly. Holly came out

1:04.7

on the side of not cutting health care to pay for tax cuts. That broken clock just used up both of his times to be right. He actually

1:14.0

called tax cuts at the expense of Medicaid, quote, morally wrong and politically suicidal. He also said,

1:22.3

quote, if Republicans want to be a working class party, if we want to be a majority party, we must

1:29.6

ignore calls to cut Medicaid. So, how are things going over in the house? Well, the parts of the

1:37.3

package we've seen include trillions in tax cuts and rich people giveaways and cuts to Medicaid

1:43.7

and nutrition programs. So there's that.

1:47.2

Just with what we've seen, it will add just under $5 trillion in costs, $4.9 trillion.

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