The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 7.03 Trump’s Budget Bill is Crazier Than You Think & The Love Island Problem is Getting Worse

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Republicans just passed what's being called the worst piece of legislation in modern history And you might need to buckle up for what's coming in the next one to three years This love island situation is crazy It has gotten so much bigger than some reality tv drama argentina's president became part of an ai porn smear campaign And the teacher just lost his job because an obituary outed him We're talking about that and much more on today's brand new philip defranco show you daily dive into the news starting with this on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show, your daily dive into the news, starting with this. The House just passed Trump's big, beautiful bill today.
Starting point is 00:00:28 A bill that's been described as the worst piece of legislation in modern history. A bill that's predicted to have sweeping, devastating impacts for just countless Americans. Taking Medicaid away from 17 million people, gutting access to food stamps, and just generally hurting the poorest people in America while delivering trillions of dollars in tax cuts
Starting point is 00:00:44 that'll benefit the rich. Because when we last talked about this yesterday, you know, I said, I think this is going through, but it was unclear at the time if the house was gonna successfully pass it, at least by the July 4th deadline that was set by leadership. Because you had the more moderate members upset
Starting point is 00:00:55 about the fact that the Senate package made even deeper cuts to Medicaid than the version initially passed by the house in May. But then at the same time, you had conservative hardliners angry that the Senate had made additions that would increase the cost of the legislation and remove some of the cuts that the House bill had made
Starting point is 00:01:08 to food stamps and other programs, with it actually turning out that the fiscal hawks were the biggest hurdle. And many in that faction were upset that House Speaker Mike Johnson was just plowing ahead with the Senate version of the bill without allowing the lower chamber to make changes, demanding that they be allowed to negotiate
Starting point is 00:01:19 and effectively stalling procedural votes necessary to move the bill to the floor for debate. Despite their so-called strong objections, a big question was, you know, was this group gonna ultimately cave to pressure from Trump as they've been known to do? And wouldn't you know it, history repeated itself. Though, you know, keep in mind,
Starting point is 00:01:33 they were essentially holding up the bill because they were like, I don't know if this hurts enough Americans. The main thing, you know, Johnson and his leadership were ultimately able to secure enough support from the holdouts after fighting tooth and nail in a series of lengthy conversations yesterday that went late into the night. And ultimately, they were able to secure enough support from the holdouts after fighting tooth and nail in a series of lengthy conversations yesterday that went late into the night.
Starting point is 00:01:46 And ultimately they were able to pass the bill 218 to 214 with two Republicans joining all Democrats to vote no. Right, and as for those two Republicans, you of course had Thomas Massie, who voted against the original House version and has been very clear about his opposition, making him a major Trump target, as well as Brian Fitzpatrick,
Starting point is 00:02:00 who's a moderate from a battleground district in Pennsylvania who had raised concerns about the cuts to Medicaid, food stamps, and other social safety net programs. Which, on the note of food stamps, according to reports, this could be particularly devastating for people who also voted for Trump. Snap participation, it's pretty even
Starting point is 00:02:15 between Republicans and Democrats, but snap participation is especially high in a lot of districts in the South and the Midwest where Trump won. And that is, you also have one progressive think tank calling this the deepest snap cut in history and warning that over 2 million kids are gonna lose at least some of their snap benefits.
Starting point is 00:02:29 Though also you have to imagine it was Trump that just jammed this thing over the line. Right, because while you had Trump claiming on True Social at around 9 p.m. last night that everyone was unified after talks that he had with members earlier in the day, with him writing, it looks like the House is ready to vote tonight.
Starting point is 00:02:41 We had great conversations all day and the Republican House majority is united. But then night turned into Thursday morning and Trump was seemingly mad at this party that had proved him wrong. The lashing out shortly after midnight writing, what are the Republicans waiting for? What are you trying to prove?
Starting point is 00:02:54 MAGA is not happy and it's costing you votes. With him then adding just before 1 a.m. For Republicans, this should be an easy yes vote. Ridiculous. And then at around 3.30 in the morning, the house cleared that final procedural hurdle. Between 219 to 213 to bring the bill to the floor for debate or to sign that there was enough Republican support
Starting point is 00:03:09 to pass it. With Johnson telling reporters that he secured enough votes to pass the BBB before the July 4th deadline and insisting that the leadership had not made any promises to the holdouts to secure their vote and claiming that they just needed a little more time to understand the changes in the Senate bill before they could back it.
Starting point is 00:03:22 But notably here, many of the Republican holdouts who eventually backed the bill have indicated that they caved after getting some kind of concession from Trump. And while the exact details are unclear, several said that the president had offered up executive orders and other actions to address their concerns about the bill.
Starting point is 00:03:35 And then all of that is you had Democrats kind of trying to do anything they could to block the bill, but also understand they can't do much. You had many continuing to put public pressure on their GOP colleagues to vote no. Or with representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for example, urging Republicans to think of their constituents over the demands of leadership.
Starting point is 00:03:49 Writing, leadership does not know your community, you do. Their job is to psychologically isolate you and apply ungodly amounts of pressure. Your job is to stand up for your people. You can also add her accusing some of her Christian colleagues of hypocrisy. Saying, House Republicans voting for cuts to every single American on Snap
Starting point is 00:04:04 in exchange for some signed merch, voting to starve babies, the disabled, the poor, and they have the audacity to try to brand this as Christian. What does that word even mean to them? Wearing a necklace? You then also have leader Jeffries echoing those criticisms in a marathon floor speech that he used to stall
Starting point is 00:04:18 the passage of the BBB. Because under House rules, party leaders are allowed to speak for an unlimited amount of time during floor debate, which is a legislative tool widely known as the magic minute. Jeffrey is actually breaking the record for the longest speech given on the house floor, clocking in at eight hours and 45 minutes. And during this record breaking speech,
Starting point is 00:04:32 you had Jeffries repeatedly railing against the bill and slamming his Republican colleagues, recalling out some of the vulnerable Republicans whose seats the Democrats are hoping to flip in the midterms. He also at times turned to scripture to make his case and read letters from Americans urging Congress not to pass the bill and expressing their concerns
Starting point is 00:04:47 about losing essential benefits. Or with Jeffries delivering some very powerful moments, drawing cheers and applause from members of his party. This reckless Republican budget is in a moral document. And some of the loudest applause for Jeffries coming after accused Republicans of being corrupt. Talking about draining the swamp, guess what? You are the swamp.
Starting point is 00:05:06 We've never seen anything like this. The type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people. Jeffries then concluding the speech by vowing to the American people that Democrats will continue to press on and fight for them as members around him yelled press on. Press on for the rule of law. Press on for the American way of life. Press on for democracy. of law. Press on for the American way of life. Press on for democracy. We're gonna press on until victory is won. I yield back.
Starting point is 00:05:34 But whether you thought it was a powerful speech or not, it essentially just delayed the inevitable. For the Republicans, they'd just been waiting in the wings until he finished so they could wrap up debate and call for a final vote. With several Republicans criticizing Jeffries, calling on him to wrap it up and Johnson slamming the speech as an utter waste of everyone's time. And ultimately with Johnson getting the final word, delivering a 20 minute speech on the floor where he talked about how actually amazing
Starting point is 00:05:54 this bill is for Americans and he praised President Trump for being such a good leader. With one big beautiful bill, we are going to make this country stronger, safer, and more prosperous than ever before. And every American is going to benefit from that. President Trump is the creator and the champion of the America First Agenda. We will deliver upon that today. We had a sense and we believed that we would have unified government. We would have this moment where the Republican Party would be given control of the White
Starting point is 00:06:23 House and the Senate and the House. And we determined to ourselves that we would not waste that historic opportunity. We've had spirited debates, we've had months of deliberation and now we are finally ready to fulfill our promise to the American people. Now, as far as what happens next, the bill will be sent to Trump's desk
Starting point is 00:06:40 and he's set to sign it during a ceremony at 5 p.m. Eastern tomorrow. You know, time will be the ultimate judge of if this bill will ultimately benefit every American, as Johnson said. But especially as you have countless nonpartisan reports and expert analyses indicating the exact opposite. We're saying that this is actually gonna be
Starting point is 00:06:53 incredibly harmful to millions and millions of the most vulnerable Americans. Well, this touches on every single American. Unfortunately, it's those people who are gonna be the guinea pigs for the most extreme of what's to come. And yeah, time will tell if these people end up being collateral damage for Trump's tax breaks. You know, one thing that Johnson said here is true.
Starting point is 00:07:10 The American people gave Republicans the trifecta, the people who voted, the people also who did not vote, especially because so much of what we're seeing here is what they said that they would do. You know, while some of the people who voted for this are gonna end up in a fuck around and find out situation because it's gonna negatively impact them. It's going to affect way more than that.
Starting point is 00:07:26 So with some of the impacts here going to be felt immediately in others over the next one, two, three plus years, these Americans can often have a tendency to have a short-term memory. Remember this moment, who enabled it and who pushed it through. But for now, as we wait to see how this plays out,
Starting point is 00:07:39 let me know your thoughts in those comments down below. But then, next up in the news day, we gotta talk about the situation that is insane, but is also unfortunately becoming kind of the standard. Because there's this AI generated pornographic videos is being used right now to drag a journalist through the mud in Argentina. And the country's president, Javier Millet,
Starting point is 00:07:54 he's just been taking the chance to pile on with his own attack. And this is just the newest episode in a long running series to undermine press freedom in the country. But also to fully appreciate this situation, you know, we got to talk about the journalist in question. Her name is Julia Mangolini, and she's got a radio show and she's a critic of Millet.
Starting point is 00:08:09 And once she joked on TV that Millet was in love with his sister who also happens to be his top political advisor. But she never said anything about a sexual relationship, and she later clarified that she wasn't implying anything sexual. What you're seeing is that Millet's supporters have seized onto that comment to try to justify
Starting point is 00:08:23 a fake pornographic video depicting Mangolini with her own brother. And while Millet, he didn't share the video himself, he made it very clear that he considered the smear campaign fair game. With Millet writing, it seems that when she lashes out with her lies, it's fine, but when the tables turn, she cries and wants to take it to court.
Starting point is 00:08:38 Millet kind of got obsessive about it. In just a couple of days, he ended up posting or reposting at least 65 messages on X targeting the journalists. With the barrage being called by the New York Times, one of the most extreme episodes in a pattern of escalating attacks against journalists by Millet. Within many adding that Millet's misogynistic,
Starting point is 00:08:52 sexually charged and often false attacks are eroding press freedom and raising the risk of real-world violence. With one law professor and former judge calling this an attack on freedom of expression because it's a form of indirect censorship as this sort of thing obviously tends to inhibit speech. Right, and Millay's fire hose here,
Starting point is 00:09:06 it's not just for Mangalini. She is just one of several high profile journalists who have recently been targets of Millay and his allies. With Amnesty International even saying that since he took off as in December of 2023, he has publicly insulted at least 41 journalists. Though observers have said that it's actually gotten worse in recent months.
Starting point is 00:09:22 Right, I mean, for example, you had Maria O'Donnell, who's another journalist who's been on the receiving end of Millais insults saying, there used to be an idea of an eye for an eye. You come for me, I come for you. Now he openly promotes hatred, insults, and outright disparagement. There's been a shift and it's gotten far more aggressive.
Starting point is 00:09:35 And that shift appears to have started after Millais secured a long awaited $20 billion deal with the IMF, a deal that led him to making changes that led some economists to raise questions about his government's management of the economy. With then, Millet not long after, coining the catchphrase, we don't hate journalists enough.
Starting point is 00:09:49 Or which you may have noticed, ties to things that we see here in America. Or which is very similar to the, you don't hate the media enough mantra that's popular among Trump supporters, as well as you know, the you don't hate the legacy media enough that we hear from Elon Musk.
Starting point is 00:10:00 Which also, not surprising, we've seen these kind of communities and movements pulling from one another. And actually, just like with Trump, we've seen Malay go on the offensive, the legal way. Because Malay has now filed a complaint against Mangalini for slander. And that came hours after she announced
Starting point is 00:10:12 a lawsuit against him. Though again, this is not limited to Mangalini. Malay has actually filed defamation lawsuits against at least three journalists who he accuses of labeling him as a Nazi. And that, as we're seeing things like in May, there was a leaked intelligence report that suggested that his government had approved a plan to enable
Starting point is 00:10:26 the surveillance of journalists, politicians, and economists. So as far as Malay, he confirmed the existence of a new intelligence plan, but they denied that it would be used for that. But definitely it's a situation and a country to keep eyes on, especially because there are a number of situations that feel kind of parallel to what's happening in the United States.
Starting point is 00:10:42 And then I'm gonna get you right back into the news, but I gotta take a minute to thank a sponsor today. And with that, ask you the question, how many brilliant ideas are just rotting away in your notes app right now? Because somewhere in that dusty graveyard of some day ideas, you've got your side hustle, your escape, maybe your next step.
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Starting point is 00:11:57 sparking debates around who reality TV chooses to throw to the wolves and what it says about our society. And the biggest villain, you have many arguing it's not even anyone on the cast. And if you don't watch Love Island USA, don't worry. I'm gonna start with the latest scandal and we're gonna work our way back. And it's really bigger than the show.
Starting point is 00:12:11 Because currently there's a lot of heat on a contestant named Sierra. And that because there's an old social media post where she used a racial slur for Asian people that resurfaced. And in the post, she's discussing getting Botox and other work done. And she says she can look a little insert slur here
Starting point is 00:12:23 when she smiles. With that being met with swift backlash and people arguing she should be removed from the show. Especially since at the start of the season, people resurfaced racist comments that a different contestant previously made, including the use of the N-word and she was booted right away.
Starting point is 00:12:35 So with some arguing, you can't allow one and not the other. Racism is racism. As well as racism against any race should be held to the same severity of racism against black people. Ulyssa was kicked off and so should Sierra. And amid this backlash, Sierra has been losing followers like it's her job. But that drop of just hundreds of thousands of followers
Starting point is 00:12:51 might be due to the fact that many people are upset with her behavior on the show, which ties into another aspect of this whole thing. And that is the bullying debate. With many of you saying, yeah, there's bullying coming from the contestants in the villa, but also with people watching. Where the viewers that are watching
Starting point is 00:13:03 this social experiment play out. Which to explain it all, just quick TLDR of how Love Island works. The show is happening in real time, but also with people watching. With the viewers that are watching this social experiment play out, which to explain it all, just quick TLDR of how Love Island works. The show is happening in real time, like as we speak. Right now, you've got a bunch of contestants currently isolated in a Fiji villa without their phones or access to social media. So they have no clue what anyone thinks of them.
Starting point is 00:13:17 Right, and the goal of the show is to couple up with someone in the villa, find a connection, but then there are also challenges and evictions. And so the goal is also not to get kicked out. And the audience at home, they get to vote and call some of the shots as to what goes down in the villa. At the start of the season, there was a lot
Starting point is 00:13:30 of conversation focused on a contestant named Huda. Cause I guess to just put it plainly, people hated her. She coupled up immediately with a guy named Jeremiah and people thought she was incredibly controlling, possessive and toxic in their relationship. So a lot of the people that watched the show, they one made their opinions of her well-known online and two, they also made their thoughts known to Huda
Starting point is 00:13:46 by voting to break them up and couple Jeremiah up with a new woman. And in fact, the backlash got to such a point, the host of the show had to issue a statement asking viewers not to dox the contestants or contact their families. You even had Huda's real life ex, who's also the father of her child,
Starting point is 00:13:59 writing a statement on social media telling people, at the end of the day, I hope everyone remembers we're human. Her going on the show to find love or whatever you think it was she's doing. Remember, she's still human. She has a daughter and a life. And adding, it's crazy I have to involve myself in this,
Starting point is 00:14:11 but I don't want my daughter's mom to get out and see this and her mental health goes down a hill. That last part, it's a huge part of this. And not just with social media in general, but it is there, but specifically with this show, two people who were contestants on the UK version of the show, they later committed suicide. You know, while contestants,
Starting point is 00:14:26 they complete psychological evaluations before filming and have access to psychologists on site in the villa, there's probably nothing out there that can prepare you for reentering the world after millions of people have been watching you the last six weeks of your life and just picking apart every single thing you did. And so then with that, at the end of an episode in June, you had the show releasing a statement saying,
Starting point is 00:14:42 "'We love our fans, we love our islanders, we don't love cyber bullying, harassment, or hate.'" The hoodah is far from the only one who has gotten tons of hate online. There's another contestant named Vanna who received tons of brutal comments about her appearance from those speculating about classic surgery she had done. And then she saw all of it as she got voted out
Starting point is 00:14:59 and said it made her break down crying. All the things that these people were pointing out to me, like I never saw in myself, like they're kind of pointing out like new insecurities, I guess. They were just things that I never looked in the mirror and like didn't like that about myself. I mean, the situation has gotten so big.
Starting point is 00:15:15 You had the New York Times even running a piece saying the show has a new villain this season, the viewers. But then with that, you have many viewers slamming the show and the producers, right? Arguing that you're doing this, asking how are you going to be anti-bullying, but you let it happen in the producers, right? Arguing that you're doing this. Asking how are you gonna be anti-bullying but you let it happen in your house, right? And that because this week,
Starting point is 00:15:29 bullying between contestants in the villa, that's taken the main focus. With everything then reaching a breaking point during Tuesday night's episode during a challenge called Standing On Business. Right, and for that challenge, the producers had the contestants write each other questions or notes
Starting point is 00:15:40 and each person had to stand in front of everyone to address their messages. So it's just a big airing of grievances. And so you can imagine things got heated. A girl named Maya was reduced to tears after three men ganged up on her because they didn't like that she, one, cries, and two, calls people babe.
Starting point is 00:15:53 Which yeah, if you're not watching the show, I am being serious. That is what they were mad about. And they did like a huge pile on attacking her for it. Then the Daily Beast calling a misogynistic bullying that went too far and even had hope walls, right? The daughter of former VP candidate Tim Walls making a video calling these men toxic and arguing that they represent how the Manisfier has made it so that men view feelings and empathy as a weakness. Also
Starting point is 00:16:12 you had people switching up from hating Huda to rushing to her defense after they felt three contestants ganged up on her and bullied her during the challenge. But there's a huge difference between bullying and entertainment and that's something Love Island clearly doesn't understand. Last night's episode was actually unacceptable. Get Shelly, Orlandia, and Ciara out of that villa right now because the way that they are bullying Huda is not okay. It is not okay that all of America is watching that happen in the front of our eyes.
Starting point is 00:16:34 And I know that the producers see this. I know that they see this and they think that we're eating it up because it's content, but it's not okay. They're bullying her. You're putting someone's mental health at risk. And then because fans are so frustrated with how things are playing out in the villa,
Starting point is 00:16:48 news actually broke this morning that fan voting records for Love Island USA have been broken this season. With it seemingly somewhat to be connected to fans feeling like they need to step in and correct the actions of the islanders. But also it brings up the question of what is the actual lesson that's gonna be learned here?
Starting point is 00:17:01 Because if views are up, engagement is up, you're breaking records. It's very possible, if not arguably likely, that there are gonna be a number of producers that go, well, you've eaten the slop, so we're gonna keep making it. You know, with all that said, I gotta pass the questions off to you, whether you're a big Love Island fan,
Starting point is 00:17:16 or you've really never watched or even heard of this show before. What are your thoughts based off of what we're seeing and how things have been playing out? And then there's even more we've gotta talk about in a second, but I'm going to take a second to sponsor myself and say, hey, if you haven't already, you've got probably 24 to 36 hours to jump in on this.
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Starting point is 00:18:18 which just that alone is crazy, but the how it got to this point, crazier. Right, so this is Mark Richards, and he started a relationship with a guy who eventually became his husband in 2001. And then in 2003, he starts working at the St. Francis Xavier School in New Orleans. Great Knit is a Catholic school,
Starting point is 00:18:33 which is important to the story. Cause you see Mark's annual renewable employment contract, it has a morality clause. And specifically it banned teachers from entering into a quote, "'Marriage in violation of the rules of the Catholic Church, "'actively engaging in homosexual activity or participating in any other activity,
Starting point is 00:18:48 conflicting with the teachings of the religion. And while all the teachers at schools affiliated with the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans have agreed to this, a big key thing is that it has been selectively enforced throughout history. And Mark basically said that he signed the contract because that seemed to be the case
Starting point is 00:19:01 and explaining that he never kept being gay a secret and he was offered the job anyway. And so, you know, he gets the job. He is part of the community. He is helping raising these children. All of which then led to 2023, where there was heartbreak. Because Mark's husband, he died of a heart attack. And while, you know, he counted on the sympathy
Starting point is 00:19:16 and support from many members of the St. Francis community, that ended up changing a few weeks ago. Because some parent ended up finding the almost two-year-old obituary, realized Mark was gay, and then complained to the school on the archdiocese. With then, just a little over a week ago, a few weeks ago because some parent ended up finding the almost two-year-old obituary realized Mark was gay and then complained to the school on the archdiocese. With then just a little over a week ago the school telling him that they wouldn't be renewing his contract and claiming that he had lied about his lifestyle in the past. Now with this I'll say this is not a situation where the
Starting point is 00:19:36 whole community is on the same page or when the news got around you had other parents organizing a petition and they actually have now collected almost 5,000 signatures calling on the archdiocese to reverse the decision and describing Mark as a beacon of kindness and understanding. But despite that, in an email to the community, you had school officials saying this decision is final and will not be revisited. And then with that, you might be thinking,
Starting point is 00:19:55 okay, well, this is probably gonna get legal. And to that point, Mark's spoken to a lawyer to see if there'd be a way to get rid of the morality clause going forward. But I mean, looking into it, legally his options may be limited. Because as it turns out, there was one recent court ruling that actually upheld a North Carolina Catholic school's
Starting point is 00:20:08 decision to fire a gay teacher for planning to marry his partner. But then looking into this even further, even if this doesn't move forward, the New Orleans archdiocese, one more lawsuit would probably be the least of their problems right now. But for one, the organization's five years
Starting point is 00:20:20 into bankruptcy proceedings tied to decades of child sexual abuse allegations, with it recently agreeing to settle a case involving more than 500 people who say they were abused by clergy for nearly $180 million. And then regarding St. Francis specifically, a couple of years ago, the church's own pastor actually pushed the state to release a priest
Starting point is 00:20:36 who had already been convicted of raping a child, saying that it was justified on medical compassion grounds. And then actually the attorney who helped him with that campaign, he eventually got convicted of molesting a child himself. And so one, but you know, God forbid, a gay man teach at a school. And two, I've mentioned all that.
Starting point is 00:20:52 So you understand who is casting this person out. You've got people doing the most bigoted bullshit hiding behind. Think of the children. Meanwhile, you've got people on your staff thinking of children. But also let me stress, this is not a swing at all religious people, not all Catholics,
Starting point is 00:21:07 anything like that. And also, props to the families that stood by and supported this teacher. But then my friends, is the end of today's show. Thank you for watching, thank you for subscribing, and I hope you have a great weekend. I'm looking forward to this one. Wife and kids are back, gonna have some July 4th, whatever.
Starting point is 00:21:22 I might even destroy this room and get an actual set instead of just a wall. Or maybe I'll procrastinate for two more weeks. That one feels kind of more likely. But either way, I'll see you right back here on Monday because of course I got a brand new show for you every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Pacific. Love you, mean it, bye.

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