Rep. Jim Himes on "Big Beautful" Bill and Steve Schmidt on Trump's "shakedown" of Ukraine.
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🗓️ 26 February 2025
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome, everybody. It is Wednesday on the Jim Acosta show. And as you can see right there on screen is Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut. I'll be talking to him in just a few moments. But, you know, one of the things we're obviously going to be talking about is this House Republican budget bill. We're going to be talking about Ukraine. And then a little later on in the program, I'm going to be talking to a former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt. He's got some thoughts |
| 0:26.3 | on Elon Musk and everything that's taking place right now in the nation's capital. But I did |
| 0:31.0 | want to start off with a phrase that I think most folks have heard before, and that is elections have |
| 0:35.5 | consequences. But in this case, it might not be the |
| 0:38.6 | consequences you think I'm talking about. Yes, there may be consequences for Democrats in this new |
| 0:45.5 | Trump administration. There's no question about it. That's what Trump and Elon Musk might prefer. |
| 0:50.0 | But I'm talking about consequences for potentially millions of people in the MAGA movement, |
| 0:55.0 | millions of Republicans who voted for Donald Trump in the last election, who may be impacted |
| 0:59.6 | by Trump's quest for what he's calling a big, beautiful budget bill. |
| 1:04.1 | This bill may leave people on Medicaid, that is, health care for the poor or food stamps, |
| 1:09.1 | out in the cold. |
| 1:10.3 | And I want to talk about this now with Democratic |
| 1:11.8 | Congressman Jim Himes. Congressman, I'm sure you're you were there up on the hill when this |
| 1:17.1 | vote went through. The House Republicans passed this. It seems like by a one vote majority here. |
| 1:23.6 | And what it's talking about proposing at this point is what, $4.5 trillion in tax breaks, |
| 1:29.1 | $2 trillion in spending cuts, and a huge portion of that may come from the Medicaid program |
| 1:35.4 | health care for the poor. |
| 1:37.4 | I know you voted against it, but what are your thoughts on this bill right now? |
| 1:41.3 | Yeah, that's right, Jim. |
| 1:42.1 | And by the way, Medicaid is not just health care for the poor. |
| 1:45.0 | Yes, it's a lot of lower income people get their health insurance from Medicaid, but it's |
| 1:50.0 | also grandma. |
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