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| 0:00.0 | This is Ira Glass of This American Life. |
| 0:02.2 | Each week on our show, we choose the theme, tell different stories on that theme. |
| 0:07.3 | All right, I'm just going to stop right there. |
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| 0:10.2 | Chances are you know our show. |
| 0:11.9 | So instead, I'm going to tell you, we've just been on a run of really good shows lately. |
| 0:17.4 | Some big, epic emotional stories and some weird funny stuff, too. Download us, |
| 0:22.7 | This American Life. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Billionary Elon Musk took |
| 0:31.0 | to social media to blast Republican signature legislation that would extend President Trump's |
| 0:37.0 | 2017 tax cuts and cut hundreds of billions in spending on programs like Medicaid. |
| 0:42.8 | SMPR's Barb respond explains Musk criticism comes as the Houseback bill is working its way through the Senate. |
| 0:48.2 | Musk calls the bill, quote, a disgusting abomination, adding he believes it will, quote, massively increase the already gigantic budget |
| 0:55.1 | deficit. The Tesla CEO recently ended his stint with the team known as the Department of Government |
| 1:00.5 | Efficiency, which sought to find savings in government. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said |
| 1:05.6 | Senate Republicans will forge ahead despite Musk's grievances. We obviously respect everything that Elon did with Doge. |
| 1:13.3 | On this particular issue, we have a difference of opinion. The bill has caused riffs among Republicans |
| 1:18.0 | in both chambers. Thune is pushing to get the bill to President Trump's desk by July 4th. Barbara |
| 1:24.0 | Sprint and Pierre News, the Capitol. As President Trump touts his own executive orders to lower drug prices, Medicare drug price negotiations begun during the Biden administration, are continuing behind the scenes. |
| 1:37.8 | NPR, Sydney Lopkin, reports this summer and fall the government will negotiate the prices of 15 drugs, including OZMPIC. |
| 1:43.7 | Two drug makers, Amgen and Novo Nordisk, which sells OZempic, confirmed MPR that they had |
| 1:48.7 | received opening price offers from the government, kicking off negotiations that could last |
| 1:53.5 | through October. Medicare drug price negotiation is still relatively new. Until the 2022 passage |
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