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🗓️ 7 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Americans love using their credit cards, the most secure and hassle-free way to pay. |
0:04.0 | But DC politicians want to change that with the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill. |
0:08.0 | This bill lets corporate megastores pick how your credit card is processed, |
0:13.0 | allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data security and rewards. |
0:18.0 | Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price. |
0:21.6 | Tell Congress to guard your card because Americans lose when politicians choose. |
0:26.6 | Learn more at guard your card.com. |
0:29.6 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal. This is Potomac Watch. |
0:45.4 | Republicans are huddling this week on their big, beautiful bill to extend the 2017 tax cuts and more. But how much movement does there seem to be and is it in the right or the wrong |
0:50.3 | direction? And when might President Trump expect a bill to land on his desk? |
0:55.6 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
0:59.5 | We're joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Kate Batchelder-Odell, and columnist |
1:05.5 | Alicia Finley. |
1:07.1 | Senate Republicans this morning are having a policy retreat at the Library of Congress across from the Capitol, the Senate Majority Leader John Thune, saying this is an opportunity for us to get everybody together to talk about the upcoming agenda. |
1:21.8 | Obviously, we'll be heavily focused on reconciliation. That is the big, beautiful bill, as Trump often calls it, that is |
1:29.4 | intended to pass the GOP's agenda without having to go through the Senate filibuster and get 60 votes. |
1:37.6 | House Republicans meantime have been meeting at the Capitol. The Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday |
1:42.6 | night had a meeting with GOP moderates. That |
1:45.7 | discussion focused mainly, it seems, on the Medicaid debate within the Republican Party |
1:51.0 | on what should be in this bill. Kate, all these discussions are geared toward passing the |
1:57.5 | Republican agenda, including but not limited to those 2017 tax cuts that are soon expiring. |
2:04.1 | But it seems to me that there are many real and divisive policy questions that are still |
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