Trump’s Budget ‘Heist’ Is Robin Hood for Billionaires

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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On this episode of The New Abnormal, Republican math isn’t math-ing for hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy after the GOP-led House passed a budget framework to fund tax cuts for billionaires that would add $5.7 trillion to the government deficit. “That doesn't seem like a recipe for balancing a budget to me,” says Levy. Plus! New York Times chief TV critic James Poniewozik dissects Kristi Noem’s Homeland Security social media dramedy, and Vanderbilt University professor Dr. Jonathan Metzel on higher education’s crash course on authoritarianism.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN-HLN guy and current cable news conscientious objector.
0:06.1	I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.
0:09.6	Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist.
0:13.4	But today, I'm an unapologetic, woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.
0:18.5	And I'm producer Jesse Cannon, and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off
0:22.1	the rails.
0:23.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining
0:27.1	people in politics, media, and beyond.
0:29.6	Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully
0:35.2	even make you laugh through the tears.
0:37.3	What an excellent show we have today.
0:39.2	James Panoiwazik, chief TV critic for The New York Times is here to talk about his recent
0:43.2	article, the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Publicity, and how Christy
0:47.3	Nome's viral prison video reflects the administration's obsession with cinematic displays of
0:52.0	dominance.
0:52.6	Then we'll talk to Vanderbilt University professor, Dr. Jonathan Metzell,
0:56.2	the author of Dying of Whiteness,
0:57.7	who will tell us about the Trump's administration assault on higher education
1:00.9	and why white people may finally be waking up to the kind of authoritarianism
1:05.0	that black Americans have warned about for decades.
1:08.0	But first, let's have some fun.
1:10.1	So, I don't know. You know, it is have some fun. So I don't know. You know, it is,
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