today we're going to talk about the main message Democrats can take from the passage of Trump's

one big beautiful bill, and I've got three interviews. I speak with Congressman Jamie Raskin

about what made the conservative holdouts fold, Potsave America co-host Tommy Vitor about the

consequences for Republicans, and election analyst Kyle Condick about what the landscape looks like

for 2026 and beyond. I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No

Lie. So this whole episode with the Big Beautiful Bill these last few months culminating

into this past week has made me think about power, how the Democrats often refuse to wield it,

and how the Republicans often refuse to limit their abuse of it. When the Democrats had full

control of government in 2021, we had our own BBB, the Build Back Better Act, that we tried to pass

with a razor-thin majority. And it had all the big Democratic priorities. It had climate funding,

child care, universal preschool, child tax credit, paid family leave, Medicare expansion,

ACA subsidies, caps to out-of-pocket

health care costs, all paid for by imposing a 5% tax on individual incomes in excess of $10 million,

and an additional 3% tax on those over $25 million, along with a 15% minimum corporate tax

on businesses with profits in excess of a billion dollars.

A grab bag of pie in the sky Democratic priorities. And we ultimately couldn't get Joe Manchin

on board and the bill stalled in the Senate and ultimately died. And along with it, Democrats' hopes

of ushering through a massive legislative reform. Cut to present day, Republicans introduced their own BBB,

the big beautiful bill, and that was the foil to the Democratic BBB. This was a grab bag of

Republican priorities. They cut health care for 17 million Americans, food assistance for 3 million

Americans, eliminated school meal access for 18 million kids, substantially raised health care premiums for seniors with ACA coverage, sent energy costs soaring, and added nearly $4 trillion to the debt, all to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, and fund ICE to such a degree that if this was a military, it would be the 16th best-funded military on earth, more than Israel,

Italy, and Brazil. Republicans, too, had raised within majorities like the Democrats did in 2021,

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