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Beau of The Fifth Column

Let's talk about Trump caving, midnight rewrites, and what it means....

Beau of The Fifth Column

Beau of The Fifth Column

Society & Culture

4.8965 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about Trump caving, midnight rewrites, and what it means....

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

So today, we're going to talk about Trump caving, Midnight Rewrites, and what it means.

0:11.0

We said the one big beautiful bill would need a rewrite to pass.

0:15.0

Well, it got it.

0:17.0

There were some pretty big changes to it overnight.

0:20.0

Trump and Johnson basically caved on everything.

0:23.4

That's what it took to get the bill out of committee and to the floor for a vote.

0:28.1

To appease the fiscal hawks, Medicaid cuts are now slated to begin next year.

0:33.2

Under the initial plan, they wouldn't begin until 2029.

0:37.2

It looks like they still push them back

0:39.2

until after the midterms, because they certainly don't want to have to run on the policies

0:44.1

they're enacting. If this is such a great thing, why not do it now? They're hoping to trick people

0:50.9

one more time before it becomes obvious how badly they're being hurt by the

0:55.6

Trump agenda. It looks like there are now financial incentives for states not expanding Medicaid

1:02.0

to people who need it. I guess Trump's saying don't F around with Medicaid didn't matter. They did it

1:08.8

anyway. He's in real danger of turning himself into a lame duck.

1:14.0

Trump told the salt deduction crew that they needed to let it go, that there wouldn't be a bigger

1:19.2

deduction. They didn't let it go. That got a rewrite too. The cap on the deduction will be

1:26.0

quadrupled. And I guess this is also for the fiscal hawks.

1:31.0

They're going to do away with the clean energy credits even faster and put Americans,

1:36.7

mostly in red states, out of work faster. Yes, this was all done overnight because you know

1:44.0

it's a good bill when you make the changes

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