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PBS News Hour - Segments

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump’s budget and GOP support for cuts

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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41K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including the big week ahead for Republicans and the Trump agenda on Capitol Hill and a new poll shows how young voters view the parties and their leadership. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Well, it's shaping up to be a big week for Republicans and the Trump agenda on Capitol Hill.

0:05.9

Here to delve deeper into the politics of it all is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

0:13.9

Great to see you both.

0:14.8

I love to see you.

0:15.4

So as Lisa was reporting earlier, that Republican budget bill now moves to the Senate.

0:19.2

We know some Republican senators have some concerns.

0:22.4

Some say not enough cuts. Some are concerned about Medicaid cuts. I'm sure you both saw Iowa Senator

0:27.3

Joni Ernst took some questions about those concerns in a Friday town hall. A constituent said

0:32.8

people will die as a result. She said, well, we're all going to die. She doubled down on that with a post

0:38.2

over the weekend. Here's what she, here's what she shared. I made an incorrect assumption

0:44.2

that everyone in the auditorium understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this earth.

0:55.8

So I apologize.

0:58.5

And I'm really, really glad that I did not have to bring up

1:02.5

the subject of the tooth fairy as well.

1:06.2

So Tam, Senator Ernst has become sort of the poster child

1:09.0

for Democrats' anger around this.

1:10.6

But what happens when the bill goes to Senator Ernst and the other senators?

1:14.5

What happens next?

1:15.6

I can tell you that President Trump is working on this right now.

1:19.8

We know that he had a call with Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, who is someone who has been raising concerns about Medicaid cuts being political

1:30.2

poison.

1:31.2

Holly then tweeted today that there will be no cuts to Medicaid benefits.

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