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🗓️ 14 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Okay, everyone, I mean, this was the scene on Capitol Hill today. |
0:04.0 | Members of the disability community, you can see them right there in the video, |
0:08.0 | showed up at a House committee meeting to protest Republicans proposed changes to Medicaid in their budget bill. |
0:15.0 | Changes that the Congressional Budget Office says could cause millions of Americans to lose insurance coverage. What better to protest? |
0:23.2 | Now, the people there, you can see them all, they're voicing their freedom of speech right there. |
0:28.8 | They interrupted the meeting with shouts of no cuts to Medicaid, no cuts to Medicaid, and were |
0:33.7 | promptly escorted out of the building by police officers. Twenty-five of them were arrested. |
0:38.3 | And then, even after all that, Republicans went forward with their first step toward enacting those Medicaid cuts. |
0:45.3 | And that all created what I would consider quite a split-screen moment today, |
0:50.3 | because as those concerned citizens, you just saw protesting in the House, what the impact of Medicaid |
0:55.6 | cuts would be on their lives and many of the lives of their friends and colleagues around |
1:00.2 | the country, where was Donald Trump? |
1:03.1 | Well, the President of the United States was nearly 7,000 miles away, sitting in a gilded |
1:07.5 | palace surrounded by billionaires. |
1:11.3 | Now, the stated reason for his visit to Saudi Arabia |
1:14.7 | and his paling around with the crown prince, |
1:17.6 | Muhammad bin Salman, also known as MBS, |
1:20.1 | and a man perhaps best known for personally approving |
1:23.3 | the murder of an American journalist, |
1:25.6 | was to get them to invest in American businesses. |
1:29.1 | Trump claimed at the outset of his trip |
1:31.3 | that he was going to get the Saudis to invest |
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