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🗓️ 20 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Tonight, fears that Trump's budget bill could add trillions to the deficit, how Wall Street |
0:06.6 | is reacting, and why Republicans are still racing to pass it before Memorial Day. |
0:12.0 | Then what Moody's credit downgrade means for American consumers as mortgage rates top 7%. |
0:18.2 | Plus, we're going to take a look at Democrats' plans to reboot their party ahead of next |
0:22.2 | year's midterms as the 11th hour gets underway on this Monday evening. |
0:33.4 | Good evening, everyone. I'm Eamon Mohedin in for Stephanie Rule. It is day 120 of the second Trump administration, and the president's so-called big, beautiful bill is causing some concern on Wall Street. |
0:46.7 | Tonight, the New York Times points out stocks, bonds, and the dollar slid in morning trading and rebounding by the afternoon as nervous investors appeared sensitive |
0:55.6 | to the latest wrangling over the government's budget. Late last night, House Republicans |
1:00.6 | managed to advance the bill through the Budget Committee despite pushback from members of their |
1:05.4 | own party. But leadership has a long week ahead of them if they want to make their Memorial |
1:10.1 | Day deadline. |
1:11.3 | And the reality is this. The markets are worried because this bill will not cut the deficit. |
1:17.1 | The Wall Street Journal reports the current bill would increase projected budget deficits |
1:21.6 | by about $3 trillion through 2034. And tonight, the DOJ charged New Jersey congresswoman |
1:28.8 | La Monica McIver with assaulting, impeding, and interfering with law enforcement at an |
1:34.4 | immigration and customs enforcement facility in Newark earlier this month. |
1:39.3 | McIver called the charges purely political and said she looks forward to the truth being |
1:43.3 | laid out clearly in |
1:44.4 | court. Meanwhile, the president appears to be taking a more active role in trying to end Russia's |
1:49.6 | war with Ukraine. Trump spoke with both Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian |
1:54.1 | president Vladimir Poon earlier today. Here's some of what he said afterwards. |
1:59.8 | Big egos involved, but I think something's going to happen. |
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