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Tim Miller: Trump’s Economy Is STAGNANT!

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller joins MSNBC’s The Beat With Ari Melber and The 11th Hour to take on JD Vance’s defense of Trump’s unpopular economic bill and its hidden healthcare cuts, the stagnant Trump economy, Republican redistricting power grabs, and MAGA's authoritarian theater on the National Mall.

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0:00.0

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0:25.2

First was my buddy, Ari, Melbourne. I'm not on that show very much.

0:29.3

You get a little me and Ari for once, a little change of pace.

0:32.0

And then later on the 11th hour with Jacob Soberoff sitting in for Steph Ruhl.

0:36.3

And the first one,

0:37.8

we discussed J.D. Vance going to Georgia, which I haven't a chance to get to on the podcast

0:42.6

and giving this speech in defense of the Trump economic agenda and the one big ugly bill.

0:50.9

And he had some interesting thoughts there. One of the things I didn't really get into was that he talked about how everybody should be able to have access to health care except illegal immigrants and people who are not even trying to get a job. And whatever you think about that policy, that's not the Trump policy.

1:08.0

The Trump-Bance policy is not universal health care for everybody who is a citizen except for those who aren't trying to get a job a lot of other folks are going to lose access to health care and health services it's not private market and people are getting kicked off Medicaid so you know the the rhetoric is imagining the reality we talk a little bit about why he's doing that and what the threats are for them on the economic stuff.

1:31.4

So that conversation is focused mostly on economics.

1:34.4

And then in the second batch, we get into the redistricting wars.

1:40.2

I express some of my concerns about what the next steps of that are with the red states

1:44.8

and also talk about the bullshit going on in D.C. and the ice theater,

1:51.5

where we have these new kind of fascist characters now in the National Mall that people get

1:56.4

their selfies with like we're going to Disneyland.

1:58.5

So anyway, stick around for those conversations.

2:00.8

Appreciate you all very much. Subscribe to us on this feed. We got so much more coming today.

2:04.9

You're going to want to see it. Talk to you soon.

2:06.9

In Georgia, rural hospitals facing not only limits, but possibly having to shutter to close.

2:13.6

J.D. Vance was in Georgia today while the state senator joined this very news channel to discuss the damage.

2:23.4

It's not about kicking people off of health care. It's about kicking illegal aliens the hell out of this country.

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