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Today in Focus

Trump’s big beautiful betrayal

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ed Pilkington explains the president’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ and what it will mean for millions of poorer Americans who voted for him last November. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:07.8

Today, how Donald Trump's mega bill will change America.

0:16.9

Today in Focus is supported by London Business School.

0:21.6

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0:26.0

That's why the school is committed to bringing together people who see the world in radically unique ways.

0:32.2

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0:38.8

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0:43.3

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0:47.1

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0:51.8

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0:57.2

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1:05.0

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1:14.0

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1:18.4

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1:32.4

Six months since he took office, what is Donald Trump's movement really about?

1:36.9

He and his top officials give contradictory answers.

1:41.5

Unleashing the US economy and tying it up in tariffs.

1:47.4

Getting out of foreign wars and then bombing Iran. Craft an economy that favours ordinary people over the elites, and then this mega bill that passed Congress last

1:54.5

week. The one big, beautiful bill is Trump's biggest legislative accomplishment to date.

2:01.4

It's not some executive order that a future president can undo the stroke of a pen.

2:06.8

It will reshape America.

2:09.6

And amid the noise and the chaos and the distraction that Trump generates 24-7,

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