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How Trump’s Massive, Wide Ranging Budget Bill Could Affect You

2025/6/2
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The Trump administration's budget prioritizes tax cuts for the wealthy, increased spending on ICE and border patrol, and defense, while cutting Medicaid. The budget uses budget reconciliation to bypass a Senate filibuster, requiring only a simple majority for passage.
  • Tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans
  • Increased spending on ICE and Border Patrol
  • Increased defense spending
  • Cuts to Medicaid
  • Use of budget reconciliation to avoid filibuster

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President Trump’s  budget bill rolls back clean energy initiatives, reduces Medicaid benefits, alters student loan rules, and extends tax cuts to the wealthiest, among other initiatives. It passed in the House by a bare margin, but Republican senator Ron Johnson has called the bill “divorced from reality,” indicating that it may face headwinds in the Senate. We talk with reporters about what’s in the 1000-plus page bill and its political implications.

Guests:

**Russell Berman, **staff writer, The Atlantic

**Claudia Grisales, **congressional correspondent, NPR

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