Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ win, Biden’s health

Post Reports

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump has had a busy week. The House passed a legislative package containing much of his agenda early Thursday morning after Trump met with factions of the House GOP earlier this week.

Congressional reporter Marianna Sotomayor walks through how overnight negotiations led to the bill’s passage. And Colby Itkowitz talks with The Post’s White House bureau chief Matt Viser and White House reporter Emily Davies about what they make of Trump’s role in getting his “big, beautiful bill” through the House.

They also make sense of Trump’s Oval Office confrontation with the president of South Africa on Wednesday and talk through former president Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis.

Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff and Rennie Svirnovskiy. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and mixed by Sam Bair.

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0:00.0	You know, Matt, there was a time when you and I would have been on the hill up all night covering bill passage.
0:10.5	How happy are you that we are not there?
0:13.4	Extremely happy.
0:14.6	I slept well last night.
0:16.1	Me too.
0:16.6	I woke up to the news and, you know, caught up.
0:19.6	And I was glad not to be in those small spaces on the hill,
0:24.3	frustrated that members are not moving more quickly.
0:27.2	Oh, my God. And, you know, having a good night's sleep instead.
0:30.4	I just remember, like, standing in the Speaker's lobby for hours.
0:35.1	Yeah.
0:35.7	Just, like, hoping that something would happen.
0:37.5	Yeah. And, Emily, you know a little something about staying up late. There was, like hoping that something would happen. Yeah.
0:38.0	And Emily, you know a little something about staying up late.
0:40.4	There was like a hot second when you were doing our overnight shift at the Post, right?
0:44.4	That's true.
0:45.4	Yeah.
0:45.5	No, but it's, you know, it's good to feel in it sometimes.
0:48.1	You are always in it.
0:49.6	We are so impressed.
0:54.5	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
0:58.4	I'm Colby Ickowitz.
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