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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | The 2026 budget, also known as one big beautiful bill, passed right before Memorial Day in the House of Representatives, |
0:10.5 | and is making its way through the Senate, with Majority Leader John Thune, hoping to get it passed and on Trump's desk for a signature before the July 4th break. A new Washington Post survey |
0:23.2 | showing the bill is wildly unpopular, with 42% of Americans opposed, while only 23% support it. |
0:33.5 | And 34% of Americans say they weren't following it close enough to have an opinion. |
0:40.0 | Well, that 34% of Americans not paying any attention, that's the Republican Party's sweet spot. |
0:48.2 | Those are the people you can lie to. |
0:51.3 | You can insist to them they're not going to be any cuts to food stamps or Medicaid |
0:55.9 | and that the tax cuts pay for themselves. You can say the deficit is going to be decreased |
1:03.0 | and forget all that. It's transgender athletes we need to be worried about. So as unpopular as this budget bill is, Trump and the Republicans are not scared because |
1:17.5 | they know the alternative is even less popular. |
1:22.8 | According to the latest surveys, heading into next year's midterms, congressional |
1:26.5 | Republicans are at least 10% more |
1:30.1 | popular than congressional Democrats so the Democrats have a problem especially since their most |
1:37.7 | popular leader isn't even a Democrat he's a Democratic socialist who caucuses with the Democrats. |
1:46.5 | That would be Bernie Sanders, who is the most popular politician in America. |
1:54.6 | He's one of the few whose polling shows him above water, meaning more Americans approve than disapprove of Bernie Sanders. |
2:05.2 | It's incredible. Donald Trump, 10 years of Donald Trump, he's never been above water. |
2:12.4 | Bernie is, believe it or not, the most beloved politician in our country. And right behind him is Elizabeth Warren, |
2:21.3 | also up there, our AOC, and Coach Tim, Tim Walts. When Democrats play to the 99% they win. |
2:30.7 | It's why Bernie, along with six other Democratic senators, just signed a letter addressed |
2:37.5 | to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin, |
2:43.9 | urging them to, quote, clean house, get rid of the billionaires, |
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