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One Big Deeply Unpopular Bill

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Trump wants his “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed by July 4. But the bill is so large and expensive—with deep tax cuts only partially offset by huge cuts to Medicaid and SNAP—there’s something in there for almost every member of Congress to hate. Guest: David Dayen, executive editor of the American Prospect. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2

How much do you know about the scandal that got Bill Clinton impeached?

0:33.5

Monica Lewinsky is under the microscope. Bill Clinton is under siege and the White House is trying to contain the damage.

0:40.3

Maybe you know the basics, that Clinton's presidency came to a screeching halt amid a storm of accusations involving sex, power, and partisan warfare.

0:48.4

If it turns out to be true, it could be the end of Clinton's presidency.

0:51.6

Congress is rushing to overthrow the commander-in-chief.

0:55.7

What determines who we believe and whose side we take in a political fight?

0:59.6

Tripped and secret me tape Monica Lewinsky.

1:01.8

Go down the radio shack and buy a tape recorder and plug it in your phone.

1:06.0

What does it mean to abuse one's power?

1:07.9

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

1:11.9

It is absolutely staggering that the fate of the most powerful man on the planet is in the

1:16.6

hands of a completely unknown 23-year-old inter.

1:20.0

Subscribe to Slow Burn and Apple Podcasts. I called up David Dan to talk about President Trump's big, beautiful bill, which is steamrolling

1:40.4

through Congress, and honestly, a kind of weird time. There's an actual vote happening

1:46.3

right now. And there are 16 Republicans that are holding out on this vote and that it's

1:51.6

determinative. So, you know, this could fall apart any minute now. This was around two in the afternoon, Eastern, yesterday.

2:04.1

The bill had been through one round in the House already, gotten sent over to the Senate,

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