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Back to episode — Episode 2886 CWSA 07/03/25

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somebody that you don't know told you they did an analysis and they came up with a certain answer. Would you believe that? These are completely unknowable things at this point. So I do think that if anyone except Trump had said to me, we're going to goose the economy so much that we'll make extra money. If anyone else had said that, I would not believe it for a second. Because I would just think…

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o the big DOGE cuts. Maybe. I mean, I feel like anything where you have to get 60 votes in the Senate will never happen, but maybe.

All right, see what else we have. Let's check in with what the Democrats are saying about the big beautiful bill. Pramila Jayapal, Representative Jayapal says, quote, "If they do succeed today," which means getting the big beautiful bill signed, "July 4th is going to be about apple pie kicking mom out of her nursing home and health care for no one." And so she's telling her constituents that the bill will remove health care for everyone. How many of the Democrat public will know that that's just not true or not close to true? It's just miles away from being true. How many will know that? I don't know. Probably the people who support her would not be looking into it. And if they looked into it, they'd turn on MSNBC. And MSNBC would say, "Oh yeah, here's this example of somebody who got kicked out of a nursing home." And they won't ask questions like, you know, "Were you supposed to be there in the first place? Did you legally have access to this?"

So that's her take. However, I'm gonna give her persuasion points for being visual in her persuasion because listen, just listen to this thing she said: kicking mom out of her nursing home. That one you feel because you see your own mom and you see the building and you say to yourself, "Holy, what am I going to do if I don't have professionals taking care of her and somebody else paying the bill for it?" You know, I can't stay home from work. I can't afford to do it on my own. That one really hits. So I don't want to give her advice, but if you're talking about a budget and you can turn it

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into kicking mom out of her nursing home, which by the way is not close to anything that's really going to happen, but wow, that's visual persuasion right there. Well, meanwhile, Trump says he's got a deal with Vietnam for trade in which there would be no tariff when we sell into Vietnam, but they would still pay a 20% tariff for what they're selling into the US. So that would be a... Oh, and als…

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