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🗓️ 20 February 2025
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0:00.0 | If it's Thursday, one month in office and White House officials are moving with dizzying speed |
0:08.0 | to execute President Trump's sweeping agenda as new polling shows Americans are divided on the president's performance and his unprecedented exercise of presidential authority. |
0:19.0 | Plus, President Trump moves to terminate all taxpayer-funded benefits for undocumented immigrants, |
0:24.6 | but leaves open major questions about where the administration will draw the line and whether |
0:29.6 | vital services for undocumented children could be impacted. |
0:33.6 | And new reporting on what was happening behind the scenes as a war of words publicly |
0:39.9 | erupted between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, signaling a potentially |
0:45.6 | historic upending of U.S. foreign policy in Europe and with Russia. Welcome to Meet the Press now. I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington. Today marks one month |
1:06.0 | of the Second Trump administration. And new polling shows Americans are divided on his performance, his agenda, |
1:12.3 | and his unprecedented actions slashing the size and scope of the federal government with help |
1:17.9 | from tech billionaire Elon Musk. The public is also leery of the president's vast and at times |
1:24.4 | legally questionable exercises of his powers. |
1:35.0 | A new Washington poll's poll shows that 57% of Americans believe he has gone beyond his authority as president. |
1:44.0 | And a new CNN poll has 52% of Americans saying he's gone too far, with 39% saying his actions have been about right, and 8% saying he's not gone far enough. |
1:47.9 | Both polls have President Trump's approval, job approval rating, below 50%, although they still are some of the |
1:54.9 | highest numbers he's ever had as president. |
1:57.8 | White House officials today spiking the football on what they call a month of success. |
2:04.2 | He has packed eight years of transformative action, restoring this nation. Restoring our laws, |
2:11.4 | restoring fairness, restoring economic opportunity, restoring national security in just one month. |
2:20.3 | No one in this country's ever seen anything like it. We're incredibly optimistic about the future of inflation and the future of our economy, |
2:24.3 | and we're optimistic because we're making so much progress so far. |
2:28.3 | Trump is on what we call Trump warp speed. |
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