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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

President Donald Trump really wants the Senate to pass the big, beautiful bill that House Republicans passed the other day.

But a number of Senate Republicans are, for the time being anyway, speaking uncomfortable

truths about that bill. It would balloon the deficit and slash spending on the poor, largely

to fund a massive tax cut for the wealthy. That's not supposed to be what the working class

GOP is all about. And indeed, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt has just

delivered two diatribes on Fox News that neatly capture how badly this bill and the selling of it

will screw over Trump and MAGA voters. Today we're talking about all this with Paul Waldman,

co-author of the book White Rural Rage, who's one of the

best out there at documenting how badly Trump and GOP policies do harm those voters.

Paul, thanks for coming on, Matt.

My pleasure.

So we know that as many as 10 million people could lose Medicaid coverage under the House

GOP bill, which cuts hundreds of

billions of dollars from that program. Many of the people who would lose coverage come from

red states. It also has big cuts to food stamps. The bill delivers a large tax cut for the rich,

and it would, in an overall sense, redistribute resources upward with the top 10% of households

gaining and the bottom 10% losing. Paul, can you talk about the impact this bill would have

on Trump and Red State voters? Well, you know, Republicans like to say these days that they are

the party of the working class. And in some ways, that's true. We have seen a transformation

in voting where more educated voters with college degrees and graduate degrees are much more

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