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Velshi

The Trump Court

Velshi

MSNBC

Msnbc, Politics, Weekend News, Ali Velshi, Government, News, News Commentary

4.8687 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Why the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on nationwide injunctions by lower courts couldn’t come at a worse time; fmr. FEMA administration Deanne Criswell describes the danger of Trump’s cuts to the agency as we head into hurricane season; the life and death implications of RFK’s new vaccine advisory board

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0:00.0

Good morning. It's Sunday, June 29th, and you're watching Velshi on MSNBC. I'm Charles

0:12.5

Coleman Jr. sitting in today for Alley. Now, we're keeping a close eye on Capitol Hill

0:17.2

where the Senate is in session this hour. Senate clerks have been up all night,

0:21.6

reading aloud the 940-page bill that would fund Donald Trump's agenda.

0:26.7

When they finish, Republicans will move toward a vote on this incredibly high-stakes legislation.

0:31.6

It includes devastating cuts to Medicaid and nutrition programs and would add $4.5 trillion to the national deficit,

0:39.7

according to the Joint Committee on Taxation. But the future of this bill is far from certain

0:44.5

at this hour. Republicans had to keep the vote open for hours last night to get enough votes

0:50.3

from their own members to even allow the bill to be debated on the floor.

0:55.0

And the reason the debate has still not begun is that Democrats leaned on their limited power

1:00.5

as the minority in the chamber to delay it.

1:03.4

This is very much an active and evolving story.

1:06.1

There are a lot of vulnerable Republicans who will still need to be convinced to vote for this bill,

1:12.2

and Democrats have not given up fighting as of yet.

1:16.7

Senators Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Andy Kim of New Jersey are two of them,

1:21.6

and they will be joining us live from Capitol Hill later in the show to talk strategy.

1:26.7

But in the meantime, I want to begin this hour with a critical and crucial update on President

1:32.0

Trump's latest power grab.

1:33.9

It's hard to overstate just how consequential Friday Supreme Court ruling really is.

1:39.3

Now, in a case called Trump v. Casa, the court's conservative supermajority handed Donald Trump yet another tool

1:45.5

to help him consolidate power this time by blocking lower court judges from issuing nationwide

1:51.3

injunctions. These injunctions might sound technical, but they're actually critical checks on

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