Welcome to the beat. I'm R.A. Melbert, and we have breaking news.

President Trump's domestic agenda is now facing a new and major setback. This is on the budget

and some of the things that Trump and the MAGA crowd want to ram through the budget, which is,

despite everything going on, obviously, in the world, still Donald Trump and the

Republican Party's greatest priority, getting this done somehow. And yet, as you're going to see in

this breaking news, Republican senators are dealing with the setback in real time today.

Well, I mean, as you know, it's pretty frustrating, right?

Some of the stuff that she's striking, I have some real concerns.

Everything is challenging, look, they're all speed bumps.

This is a very fluid situation.

Yeah, I was a bit surprised.

Well, this is a setback.

I mean, I'm not going to play at.

I didn't see this one coming.

A setback, they didn't see this one coming. I set back.

They didn't see coming.

And because it's happening so fast in real time, in a place where there are cameras rolling and journalists there to get the reactions, as you hear, some of them just being what sounds like honest about their disappointments.

Others referring to the fact that in politics were so used to what the senator there,

Senator Kennedy, a Republican called play acting, that sometimes you just say, it's really bad.

So that's the headline big picture before you get into all the legal parliamentary mumbo-jumbo.

What's happening is under Donald Trump, Republicans are trying to do what he does in so many arenas,

which is test things to the breaking point.

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