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🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | In just a moment, we're going to talk with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. |
0:04.2 | No one's done more to push healthcare through the House and to protect it than Speaker Pelosi. |
0:09.5 | And I'm looking forward to talking to her about that and whether she thinks Mike Johnson has the votes. |
0:15.0 | But I want to start by just talking about what's actually in this bill. That is a pivotal thing for all of us to know |
0:24.1 | and whether it's going to get through. |
0:26.1 | I mean, Mike Johnson announced that he plans |
0:28.5 | to bring Trump's, quote, big, beautiful bill |
0:30.7 | to the floor for a vote, either tonight or tomorrow morning. |
0:34.1 | Well, as I mentioned, we're going to keep watching that. |
0:36.3 | We'll see, we'll see what he has. |
0:38.5 | One of the factors here is whether or not the right wing of the Republican Party is willing to agree to the Medicaid cuts and what they have or whether they want more. |
0:49.9 | And House Republicans have basically been desperately pushing to rush this budget bill into law, |
0:55.5 | to rush it through on their own fabricated Memorial Day timeline. |
0:59.6 | They basically pulled in all night or last night, |
1:01.6 | starting at 1 a.m. last night, |
1:03.0 | because that was the earliest they could start, |
1:05.0 | in order to speed this bill through as quickly as possible. |
1:08.3 | Conveniently, literally in the middle of the night, in the dark of night. |
1:12.6 | The hearings were so late that at one point, at least one Republican congressman, |
1:17.6 | South Carolina's Ralph Norman, you can see him right there, having a little beauty slumber, I suppose. |
1:22.6 | He seemed to have trouble staying awake. |
1:26.6 | Seemed to have a lot of trouble actually staying awake. |
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