Trump Marks 100 Days, Steve Bannon On Trump's Presidency, The "Big Beautiful Bill"

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President Trump celebrated 100 days of his second term at a rally in Michigan and called his policy changes the "most profound" in generations. Steve Bannon weighed in on the first 100 days of the Trump presidency, and Congressional Republicans return from recess aiming to pass the President's so-called "big beautiful bill" before Memorial Day.

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0:00.0	On day 100 of his second term, President Trump celebrated changes to America in his second term.
0:08.3	Those changes include a trade war, punishing perceived political enemies and invoking wartime authorities.
0:13.7	I'm Steve Inskeep with Leila Faddle, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.3	Steve Bannon, a sometime advisor to the president, talks of a busy summer.
0:25.9	I think the convergence, particularly of spending cuts, and the simultaneously constitutional crisis that we're hurtling to,
0:33.4	is going to make this summer a summer like no other.
0:36.2	How is a populist podcaster defending the president's first hundred days?
0:40.0	And what does he see in the next hundred?
0:41.6	And congressional Republicans returned from recess with a goal of passing the president's so-called
0:46.3	big beautiful bill in a month.
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