Rep. Brendan Boyle on Trump’s Disaster Budget Bill

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🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republicans losing all control as Democrats go on the offense and expose their disaster budget bill and Meiselas interviews Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle who is the Ranking Member of the Budget Committee. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	Donald Trump and the GOP know what a disaster, this budget bill and how underwater they are in the
0:36.1	polling about the budget bill. I think only 27% of Americans
0:41.3	approve of this disastrous bill. So it's a good thing in the sense that the word is getting out
0:46.8	and people realize 15, 16 million people in America can be losing their health care if this budget
0:53.8	bill passes. And, you know,
0:55.9	the status of this bill after the House sent it to the Senate, I need to get more clarity on what
1:01.7	the heck is even going on. But we're getting more data every day and it does not paint a rosy
1:06.9	picture to say the least for this disastrous budget bill. This is the headline from Rolling Stone,
1:13.0	theft. Trump's big beautiful bill, I hate that name, by the way, really screws the poor.
1:19.0	The president's latest round of tax cuts for the rich will be funded in part by taking money
1:24.0	from the poorest 30% of American households. Like if you're making over $4.2 million,
1:30.9	you're going to get $300,000, $400,000 more dollars in your pocket while literally people making
1:36.6	under $50,000 who need that money or having them money like literally stolen and given to the
1:43.0	richest Americans. You take a look right here of some
1:46.2	of the analysis by the Budget Lab, another nonpartisan group. The bottom 80% of Americans will be
1:52.8	poorer as a result of this disastrous budget bill in addition to the tariffs, as I mentioned,
2:00.6	16 million people will lose health care.
2:03.5	And one of the things, too, that I've been noticing as these Trump cabinet members
2:07.1	have been showing up to these hearings, and they've been asked to present like the specifics
2:13.1	of like the budget or like, so what is the iron dome?
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