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No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

Republicans commit political malpractice with budget bill

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

Brian Tyler Cohen

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🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Trump and Republicans take an axe to our healthcare system and our economy– but the Democrats can learn something from it. Brian interviews Senator Elizabeth Warren about the House budget bill that’ll gut healthcare and food assistance for tens of millions of Americans and attorney Norm Eisen about a major update on the legal front.


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Written by Brian Tyler Cohen

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0:00.0

Today we're going to talk about Trump and Republicans taking an axe to our health care system and our economy, but what the Democrats can learn from it.

0:07.4

And I've got two interviews this week. I sit down with Senator Elizabeth Warren to discuss the House budget bill that'll gut health care and food assistance for tens of millions of Americans and attorney Norm Eisen about a major update on the legal front.

0:18.8

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

0:23.8

So there are two things happening at once right now, both of which put on full display

0:27.5

where Trump and Republicans' priorities lie.

0:29.6

The first is that the House just passed a budget bill, and that's going to take health care

0:32.9

away from 13.7 million Americans.

0:35.4

It's going to strip $300 billion from food assistance, eliminates clean

0:39.2

energy tax credits, and restricts a bunch of student loan subsidies, all in service of the second

0:43.9

thing, which is that it pays for tax cuts that will overwhelmingly benefit the ultra-wealthy.

0:48.6

According to the Penn Wharton analysis, people making between $17,000 and $51,000 a year

0:54.0

could lose about $700 on average.

0:57.3

People reporting less than $17,000 in income per year would see a reduction closer to $1,000

1:02.3

on average. By contrast, the top 0.1%, including those with incomes over $4 million, they would

1:09.2

gain on average $389,000 in aftertax income per year.

1:14.5

In other words, hundreds of thousands of dollars in giveaways for the richest Americans,

1:18.6

people making over $4 million and a net loss in aftertax income for the working class.

1:24.4

And that, of course, is exacerbated by the fact that food assistance and

1:28.1

health care, which those folks primarily take advantage of, would be gutted. And of course, that's on

1:33.3

top of the fact that Trump is just swimming in corruption, raking in money from his crypto venture,

1:38.1

doubled his net worth to $5.4 billion. He's accepted a $400 million jet from Qatar. He's allowed Elon Musk to pay voters

1:46.0

to bribe them into voting for Republicans, fired inspectors general, made a carve out for silencers

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