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🗓️ 21 May 2025
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On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump met with House Republicans in a closed-door meeting to urge them to vote in favor of a massive spending bill to advance the president’s legislative agenda. The bill, named the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, was approved by the House Budget Committee 17–16 largely on party lines on Sunday, with four Republicans voting present. Now, the spending package has moved to the House Rules Committee, which House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wants to approve the bill as it stands so it can be sent to a floor vote via reconciliation.
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0:44.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get |
0:55.2 | views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
0:59.8 | I'm your host, Isaac Salland on today's episode, we are talking about the one big, beautiful |
1:04.8 | bill, Donald Trump and Republicans pushing forward on what could be their marquee legislative achievement of the year, |
1:12.9 | if they can land the plane. We're going to talk about where things are, what's in the bill, |
1:17.5 | what to make of it, share some views from the left and the right. And then I got my take today, |
1:21.8 | which I would say one of the more pointed takes I've had in a little while because I'm seeing some stuff that's hard not to be frustrated by. |
1:30.5 | So we'll talk more about that in a few. |
1:33.1 | But without further ado, I'm going to hand it over to John Loll, |
1:37.0 | executive producer, Tangle Media, for today's main topic. |
1:47.1 | Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody. |
1:49.2 | Here are your quick hits for today. |
1:51.3 | First up, some breaking news. |
1:53.2 | Representative Gerald Connolly, the Democrat from Virginia, died on Wednesday. |
1:58.1 | Connolly was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in November. Number two, Israeli Prime |
2:03.7 | Minister Benjamin Nanyahu recalled the top members of Israel's negotiating team from hostage |
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