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Hello, bugles, I am Andy Zaltzman and welcome to part two of your Bugle Best of 2025 Roundup

Bugle annual yearly special review. This is the shorter-weighted sequel to last week's part one,

which covered January to June. If you missed that episode, you will find it in your pod feed right now.

In this,

the July to December edition, well, the year careens onwards like a regrettable bison in an

escape bobsled. There's more from President Trump, plenty of silliness and a much-missed

bugle legend returns. But now it's time to turn our attention to July. Josie Long and Josh

Gondelman join me to put President

Trump's, shall we say charitably, quirkily individual economic strategy, can we call it that,

into the bugle spotlight. Top story this week. America News. Well, Josh, as we record, your one big

beautiful bill is on its way through the highly diseased digestive

system of American politics. Bring us up to date with exactly what is going on, why, and what

the fuck it all means. This is a great question, and I am humiliated that we have to call it the one big, beautiful bill.

Although I guess because it is a Trump thing, we should be grateful that you didn't call it

the big, thick bill that never has trouble getting hard no matter what anyone tells you.

It has been a tough week.

So here's where we stand now.

The Senate, which is half of our

legislature, or one of the two houses of our legislature is in the midst of a voterama to

amend the budget. Another wildly undignified term for creating policies that will ruin people. Voterama.

That's what they call it because they go. I thought you were being funny in whimsical.

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