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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Ian from How to Do Everything. On our show, we attempt to answer your how to |
| 0:05.3 | questions. We don't know how to do anything. So we call experts. Last season, both Tom Hanks and |
| 0:11.6 | Martha Stewart stopped by to help. Our next season is launching in just a few months. So get us your |
| 0:16.3 | questions now by emailing how to at npr.org or calling 1-800-424-2935. |
| 0:24.4 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corvick Coleman. President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk |
| 0:29.8 | have had a spectacular falling out. It went public yesterday as Musk increased his criticism |
| 0:35.1 | of the multi-trillion dollar spending and tax cut bill that is being reviewed by the Senate. |
| 0:40.2 | Musk wants lawmakers to reject it, saying it will supersize the deficit. |
| 0:44.5 | Trump criticized Musk and suggested he could pull U.S. contracts with Musk's private company SpaceX. |
| 0:51.3 | NPR's Daniel Kurtz-Laben says the breakup between two of the world's most powerful men |
| 0:55.9 | came after Musk concluded his work overseeing Trump's cost-cutting entity, Doge. Trump brought in this |
| 1:02.4 | businessman gave him sweeping power, but it wasn't a one-way street. Musk spent more than a quarter |
| 1:07.4 | of a billion dollars helping Trump get elected. So yesterday, Musk made it clear he thought he deserved more in return. He posted, without me, Trump would have lost the election. And he added, quote, such ingratitude. Musk all but said that, yeah, my money should buy me power. And peers Daniel Kurtzleben prepared that report. Republicans say health care cuts in the |
| 1:29.5 | president's big, beautiful spending bill would only affect healthy working age adults. But Alex |
| 1:36.0 | Olgan reports low-income seniors also stand to lose some health care coverage. Medicaid, the |
| 1:42.0 | joint federal and state health insurance program, helps 12 million low-income |
| 1:45.9 | seniors, like 79-year-old Aline Shaheed, afford health care. |
| 1:50.0 | The Jacksonville, Florida resident is in a wheelchair and relies on Medicaid to help pay for |
| 1:54.7 | her monthly Medicare premiums, doctors visits, drugs, and home health aids. |
| 1:59.3 | Everything revolves around having the home health aid. |
| 2:03.0 | She is the lifeline to my independence. |
| 2:06.4 | The Congressional Budget Office projects changes to the application and renewal process |
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