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This is John Batchel. Conversation with Veronique de Reggie, my colleague, she's at the Mercatus Center, about the big, beautiful bill and what's missing, which is entitlement reform.

Bernie corrects the record here.

There is something, but what needs to be done is dramatic,

and Congress will not face up to it.

Rather, worry about their re-election plans in two years

than worry about the debt of the country for the next 100 years.

More of this tonight.

Yeah, I mean, it's doing a little bit.

It's doing some reforms, some reforms that don't go nearly far enough to Medicaid.

But the problem is that Medicaid spending has grown quite dramatically, some 50% since 2019.

And this is just barely basically cutting the growth rate of spending on Medicaid.

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