Til The Murkows Come Home

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Minutes after recording this episode, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) provided the decisive vote for GOP legislation to kick 15-20 million people off their health insurance and give rich people a trillion dollar tax cut, along with many other horrors.

Now it’s back to the House, where hope, which springs eternal, goes to die!

In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:

* What more could have been done to stop this?

* By whom?

* Given GOP margins and Donald Trump’s warlord-like control over the GOP, would it have made any difference?

Then, behind the paywall, could Zorhan Mamdani kill this bill … by endorsing it?

And, more seriously, what does his victory in the New York mayoral primary mean for Democrats post-2024? Is there anything Democrats in more conservative places can learn from a primary in a very blue city? Can the Democratic Party be a genuinely big tent, where centrists abide progressives (even self-avowed socialists) and progressives give red-state Democrats room to run on cultural issues?

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0:00.0	If Zoran said I am against this bill, it would improve the odds that it passes because Republicans don't want to be on side with Zoran.
0:08.0	But if he said, this is a great bill that will increase New York's power relative to all the places where everyone's going to lose their Medicaid.
0:17.3	So I support the passage of the bill.
0:20.2	Just say, you know, this is part of my Sharia plan to bring white Christian America to its knees.
0:32.4	Hey, everyone, you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast.
0:36.4	This week, Donald Trump's big budget busting tax and health care cuts bill is wobbling a bit, even as we record this episode. It's also really close to becoming law. So what's in it? What's changing about it? What more, if anything, could be done to stop it. Then also, a New York City is likely to elect a politically shrewd, new media savvy socialist mayor.
1:01.7	Could he kill the terrible reconciliation bill?
1:05.5	If you want to answer to that question and to hear the whole conversation, you can upgrade your subscription to paid at Politics.fm.
1:15.6	Hey, everyone.
1:16.4	Welcome to the politics podcast.
1:17.7	I'm Brian Boiler.
1:18.9	I'm Matthew Glezias.
1:20.6	Hey.
1:21.5	So we ended last week.
1:23.3	I think we ended with like what's going to happen in, or maybe we started last week's episode with like,
1:28.5	what do you think is going to happen in the New York mayor's race?
1:31.1	And you,
1:32.2	even though the polls for the previous week were very favorable to Andrew Cuomo,
1:36.8	bet Mom Dani would win and you were vindicated.
1:40.9	What was?
1:41.6	So big victory lap for your predictive.
1:43.9	I mean, you should like go back and edit your
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