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Chapter 1: Is the MAGA Republican budget bill already falling apart?
Is this MAGA Republican budget bill blowing up already? They're calling it a big, beautiful bill, but it looks like a big, beautiful disaster.
MAGA Republican Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin was on right-wing propaganda media today and he was sending a message saying, we don't know what the hell these MAGAs are doing in the House of Representatives, but we ain't supporting what they're doing in the Senate. That was an interesting note. Let's play this clip. Thank you.
arguing over additional tax provisions and getting down to a reasonable pre-pandemic spending level. But that's not the path we chose. So I think the sooner we acknowledge the fact that this current effort is doomed to fail. I'm sorry. I've got to disagree with the president on this. It's doomed to fail. I'm not going to vote for it. I know a number of senators who will not even come.
We're not even contemplating. This is not a start. Right now, as it's being written, we would actually increase the deficit. I don't think many people realize that we would actually increase the deficit. That's a complete non-starter. So, no, we're not even close.
It's not Memorial.
if you were to listen to maga mike johnson and some of the reporting we did earlier in the day you know you would say it's all going well it's one big beautiful bill the beautiful bill is so big it's beautiful it's going amazing so the other tack that i guess this trump regime is taking now is that when they send their people to even show up before committees that oversee you know budgets whether that's in the house of representatives or the senate
Like they don't even do their homework. And when I was watching this clip of Kash Patel, who somehow the FBI director showing up in front of the Senate without submitting the most basic outline of what the FBI budget is and seeing Senator Murray say, where's where's the budget? Like, can I look at it? And Kash Patel's like, it's not ready.
It just reminds me of the kid who just doesn't does his homework. who doesn't do his homework at the most basic level. It's just like competence here. Watch this. I have a timeline on that.
It was due last week by law.
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Chapter 2: What is Senator Ron Johnson's stance on the MAGA budget bill?
Let me show you this clip, for example.
What do you want him to do? What do you want him to say today?
I want him to lower prices and lower the taxes and make Barbies cheaper.
Make Barbies cheaper?
Yeah.
Tell me more about that. Have they gotten expensive?
Yeah, and Polly Pockets. All my favorite toys are so expensive.
And now you got this guy. You got Trump up there literally saying, you know, while he's doing deals with the Abu Dhabi fund for his crypto and Trump resorts in Qatar, I saw a report, the Trump family's net worth increased by $2.6 billion just over the past 100 days. He says, little girls, you get... I can't believe I'm actually quoting the guy.
He's like, you get two dolls and five pencils and they'll cost more and you shouldn't complain about it. What do you make about all that? But more seriously, just the state of the economy right now and how Main Street's feeling. Yeah, I mean, I have an 11-year-old daughter.
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