Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Passes House, Takes From Poor, Gives to Rich | Dawn Staley

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Ronny Chieng covers the House passing Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” trading Medicaid, food stamps, and the national debt for a waiver on silencer registration fees. Plus, the Big Beautiful Bill (Troy Iwata) can’t handle the Democrats’ poetic attack on his looks.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is asking undocumented migrants to self-deport for a $1000 stipend, and Al Madrigal is taking her up on the offer. He tells Ronny Chieng how he's living large in South Sudan, the DHS's new favorite war-torn dumping ground.

Dawn Staley, basketball legend and head coach of the University of South Carolina women’s basketball team, talks to Ronny about her new memoir, “Uncommon Favor,” and how she’s built a championship program by valuing individuals over analytics and meeting her players where they are. Staley also recalls her experience of coaching through a heart condition – against doctors’ orders – to win the 2017 NCAA championship, and she offers some reassuring words to the Knicks after their Game 1 loss in the Eastern Conference finals.

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0:19.4	This is The Daily Show with your host, Ronnie Tang.
0:23.9	Thank you.
0:38.3	We've got so much to talk about tonight. Welcome to the day to show. I'm Ryan Chang.
0:39.3	We got so much to talk about tonight.
0:41.3	A piece of legislation gets body shamed,
0:44.3	Medicaid's being taken to farm upstate,
0:46.3	and good news.
0:48.3	The government is giving out free vacations to South Sudan.
0:53.3	So, let's get into the headlines.
1:00.6	President Trump has signed a record number of executive orders
1:03.5	since he became president, which makes sense.
1:06.0	It's a lot easier than passing laws.
1:08.4	I mean, to pass the law, you've got to a bill, then you got to pass it through the house,
1:13.6	and then the Senate, and then checks and balances, and founding fathers, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's a lot easier to just declare shit, all right?
1:24.9	Gummy bears are vegetables now, done. But don't forget, Congress is still doing things.
1:32.1	They're not just sitting around waiting to die. Well, I mean they're doing that, but they're
1:38.3	also doing other things. So last night, House Republicans packed their entire agenda into one
1:43.9	enormous bill that's over 1,000 pages long.
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