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The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

Trump’s budget agenda narrowly advances in House vote

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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Politics, Washington, News, President, Policy, Government, Senate, Congress, Msnbc

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The House narrowly voted to advance Trump’s agenda, yet the Republican budget plan still has a long road ahead. Then, inflation was a top issue for Trump's candidacy, but now he’s stopped discussing it. And, the story of one inspector general whose fight against social security waste was cut short when he was fired by the President. Jeff Mason, Andrew Desiderio, David Jolly, Peter Goodman, Gillian Tett, Mike Ware, and Alex Isenstadt join The 11th Hour this Tuesday.

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0:00.0

Tonight, the House passes a budget plan by a razor-thin margin after the president personally got involved.

0:07.6

But this bill still has a long road ahead.

0:10.4

Then money-power politics.

0:12.2

Inflation was issue number one for then-candidate Trump.

0:15.7

But President Trump hasn't said much about it.

0:18.5

Plus, we'll talk to one of the inspectors general fired by Trump,

0:22.3

who is actually fighting Social Security waste

0:24.9

as the 11th hour gets underway on this Tuesday night.

0:34.5

Good evening, once again.

0:36.0

I am Stephanie Ruhl, and it is day 37 of the second Trump administration.

0:40.2

Tonight, President Trump's agenda faced its first major test in Congress, and it just barely got through the Republican-controlled House.

0:47.4

Speaker Johnson's proposed budget blueprint includes money for things like President Trump's tax cuts, his immigration plan, and national defense.

0:55.0

But he had a very tight margin to get this big, beautiful bill, as he likes to call it through.

1:00.6

And he had issues on both sides of his own caucus.

1:03.7

Hard-right budget hawks wanted more spending cuts, while Republicans in swing districts were worried about cuts to programs like Medicaid.

1:11.8

But in the end,

1:13.2

he was able to get it through.

1:21.0

We got it done. We had the requisite number of votes to move this process along and now passing the budget resolution in the House that will go to the Senate. This is the first

1:25.4

important step and opening up the reconciliation process. We have a lot of hard work ahead of us, but we are going to deliver

1:31.8

the American First agenda. We're going to deliver all of it, not just parts of it, and this

1:35.8

was the first step in that process. Also, tonight, big news in the relationship between Ukraine

1:41.0

and the Trump administration. Ukraine has reportedly agreed to turn over the

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