Medicaid cuts and trillions in debt: What's in Trump's bill
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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On this episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann break down a busy week in Washington, starting with the shocking shooting of two Israeli embassy employees. Then, the crew dives into the GOP's "big, beautiful" budget bill: What's in it, what the sticking points were, and what had to be negotiated.
Later, the crew breaks down the chaotic meeting in the Oval Office between Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – and how Trump is using Oval Office meetings to set up televised showdowns with other world leaders.
Plus, technology reporter Drew Harwell joins the show to preview Trump's morally-murky dinner with investors in his crypto meme coin.
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| 0:00.0 | Look what happened. |
| 0:02.0 | Is this crazy? |
| 0:03.0 | We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the history. |
| 0:08.0 | Make America great Hickley. |
| 0:11.0 | How can you be against them? |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to Sidebar from The Washington Post. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Libby Casey here with Rhonda Colvin and James |
| 0:21.9 | Homan. It's a nonstop news week here in Washington. Around the clock at that, Rhonda and |
| 0:27.2 | James, from late-night negotiations over President Trump's signature tax and spend bill to its passage |
| 0:32.8 | this morning that apparently at least one Republican slept through, Rhonda? Very true. He is in trouble. |
| 0:40.6 | Might get primary. And more diplomatic pandemonium in the Oval Office this week as President |
| 0:47.1 | Trump confronts another world leader in really a shocking public display. So on today's show, |
| 0:53.1 | we'll do a roundup of some of these biggest |
| 0:54.7 | stories that I've already mentioned, as well as Donald Trump getting that Katari jet after |
| 0:59.5 | all. Also, political interference in intelligence assessments and Trump's big crypto dinner tonight. |
| 1:07.3 | But first, we're going to start with really some terrible and shocking news, James, |
| 1:10.9 | something that happened yesterday evening. Two young people, a couple who worked at the |
| 1:15.8 | Israeli embassy here in Washington, were shot and killed in what FBI officials say will be |
| 1:20.8 | investigated as a possible hate crime. What do we know? It happened just after 9 p.m. as they were |
| 1:26.9 | leaving an event organized by the young |
| 1:28.6 | professional group of the American Jewish committee attendees that heard from speakers who worked for |
| 1:33.4 | organizations doing work on humanitarian crises in the Middle East and North Africa. They left the |
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