The 4th Of July, The Big Beautiful Bill Act

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Happy 4th of July: Trey and Ken are back! They open the show by reading a portion of the Declaration of Independence and commenting on the past and future of the United States on its 249th anniversary. After that, they turn to the biggest news item this week: the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill Act. Because of the complexity of the law, the hosts take this on in two sections. First, they look at the politics of the Big Beautiful Bill, including the end of the Republican Party as the party of deficit reduction. Second, they turn to the actual policies of the bill, including a deep rundown of most of its provisions and possible effects. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Mike’s Substack: What Fresh Hell is This? Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support atpatreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:05.0	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:11.0	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:13.0	Daddy!
0:15.0	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.1	Now that's term time working.
0:24.5	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.8	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.0	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:29.8	Conditions apply.
0:35.5	Atheists, agnostics, long hair, weirdos, short-haired widows, those Van Rolega. I'm the government.
0:38.4	Love.
0:39.1	The government.
0:40.3	Love the government.
0:43.3	Welcome to the politics, guys.
0:46.8	A place for bipartisan, rational and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:49.9	I'm Trey Orndorf, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University.
0:57.4	And I'm joined on this special 4th of July episode by Ken Katkin, a professor of law at Chase Law School.
0:59.3	Ken, happy Independence Day.
1:01.2	Oh, happy.
1:05.5	It's, it's, they've been happier, but happy Independence Day to you.
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