Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump’s big bill facing GOP opposition
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🗓️ 30 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Well, for more now on President Trump's one big, beautiful bill, we turn to our politics |
| 0:05.3 | stakes duo. |
| 0:06.3 | That's Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR. |
| 0:11.4 | Great to see you both. |
| 0:12.6 | Let's pick up with that budget bill and where it stands now. |
| 0:15.1 | Tam, it is central to the president's agenda. |
| 0:17.5 | It is not done yet. |
| 0:19.1 | The Senate has still voting on it. |
| 0:20.6 | It's still got to go back to the |
| 0:21.8 | House. Is there any reason you see it not getting across the finish line and not by this |
| 0:26.5 | self-imposed July 4th deadline? So a key thing that you said there is that it is central to the |
| 0:33.3 | president's agenda. This is essentially his entire domestic legislative agenda all wrapped up |
| 0:41.0 | into one bill, which makes it very hard for Republicans to vote against it. And I think it's |
| 0:46.7 | really important to remember that this is not the Republican Party that came in with him |
| 0:52.1 | eight years ago. This is his Republican Party. This is a |
| 0:57.4 | very compliant Congress. There have been numerous other bills where we have all looked at each |
| 1:03.0 | other and said, oh my gosh, there are so many problems. Is this really going to pass? And there |
| 1:07.0 | are all these people speaking, all these Republicans with all these complaints, and then what happened? They folded. |
| 1:13.2 | And so unless something dramatic happens, and it can, it absolutely can, at some point this is going to pass. |
| 1:22.3 | Now, President Trump had talked about really wanting it done by Independence Day. |
| 1:26.7 | Speaker Mike Johnson actually said that the president wanted to have a celebration on |
| 1:32.4 | Independence Day. He said it would be epic. He could still get that. But it's just the timing |
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