The Young Turks - Big Bad Bill - June 30, 2025

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You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Hate, hate, hate, the big, beautiful bill. No beautiful, no beautiful. Begha! All right. All right, welcome to the young church,

you're at experimenting with you guys. So lots of news for you guys today, I tried to make a pledge to myself before I appeared on Pierce Morgan this morning, not to yell, and I delivered. And so I feel good about that. I don't know that I've made that pledge for this show, but it'd be nice. It would be nice, Jank. It would be nice. Yeah.

And so we have the usual foreign policy news that's always enraging, of course. But we also domestic policy, huge news on the tax bill, the budget bill, definitely not calling it the big beautiful, it's nothing beautiful about that bill. And we're gonna show you how deeply unpopular it is and why it's so unpopular. So let's get started. In fact, why don't we begin with that story? Because there's some dissent within the Republican Party about whether or not this is the right bill to pass. Let's get into it.

How do Americans feel about the big beautiful bill? Yeah, if we're talking about adjectives, how about they think it's awful, they think it's horrible, and to quote our colleague Charles Barkley, terrible, terrible, terrible. Well, some Senate Republicans actually happen to agree that the bill in its current form is terrible, terrible, terrible, and the Senate Republicans are in a race against the clock to pass this wildly unpopular, one big, beautiful bill act before Donald Trump, self-imposed July 4th deadline. At least two Republicans are holding out and many more are uncertain whether they'll even back the bill. So it's not even clear if they'll be able to meet

that deadline or at least send the legislation back to the House in time to meet that deadline. Now compared to the House version of the bill, which was bad enough, the Senate version adds even more to the national debt and also robs more Americans of health care. So just to give you the exact numbers we're talking about here. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Senate bill would increase the deficit by nearly $3.3 trillion from 2025 to 2024, a nearly $1 trillion increase over the House passed bill, which CBO has projected would add $2.4 trillion to the debt over a decade. Now, the analysis also found that 11.8 million Americans would become uninsured by 2034 if the bill passed, a roughly one million person increase over the scoring

for the House version of the bill. So in other words, the Senate took a bad bill and they're like, how can we make this even worse for the country? How can we target vulnerable Americans even more? How can we add more to the debt? And then they're going to send it back to the house. Although, to be fair, it hasn't passed in the Senate quite yet. So here's a breakdown of the components of the bill that will, in fact, increase the national debt over the next 10 years. So these are the provisions that are the most costly. And as you can see at the very top of that list is the extension of Donald Trump's 2017

tax cuts, which disproportionately benefit the wealthiest among us. That's going to cost us about $2.2 trillion over the next 10 years. Then you have some more costly provisions, including the fact that they want to essentially add $158 billion in defense spending. And also just quickly notice that when it comes to no tax on overtime or no tax on tips, those provisions are set to sunset or expire by the end of 2028. The tax cuts that disproportionately benefit businesses, for instance, you see that for $564.6 billion, or the extension of the Trump era tax cuts, those are not set to expire

based on how the bill is currently written. And then how are they gonna pay for it? Well, they're not, okay, because the provision that would save money do harm the neediest among us, but they don't even come close to paying for the bill. Let's just take a quick look at the next graphic here. As you can see, they're expecting to cut $1.1 trillion for Medicaid in the Senate version of the bill. They also want to save $2 billion by cutting worker protections for federal workers, Jank. Yeah, so let's break this down one by one.

And there are actually some good things in the bill, even though overall it's a disaster. So let's bring back up the chart on the things that it costs us. So the first one, as Anna pointed out, is the continuation of the tax cuts. So a majority of that goes to the rich, in fact, half of that goes to the top 1%. So that's a giant number that doesn't need to be there at all. That has nothing do with balancing the budget. There's nothing to do with cost containment. It adds to the debt directly by giving to the richest people in the country.

Now when you move down the list, increase the third one, increased standard deduction by up to $2,000. That's not that bad because that goes more to the middle class. The next one, increased child tax credit and linked to inflation, that's actually pretty good. I agree with that. Yeah, so I'm relatively happy with that one. And then you've got, by the way, buried in that border wall in immigration restrictions is $46 billion for Donald Trump's useless wall. So that's just to make him happy, even though that really doesn't have anything to do with it.

we got the border under control without any wall, right? So you actually, even if you give Trump credit for what he's done so far, which I don't mind doing in terms of the border itself, he did that without a wall. So he doesn't need the 46 billion. Okay, but now keep going. So no tax on tips, no tax on core loan, car loan interest, no tax on overtime. Not bad, not bad, okay, those are the more middle class ones. Okay, but you see what they add up to. They add up to about 20% of business tax breaks that got newly at it.

Like just half a trillion dollars, more than half a trillion dollars. Oh, the lobbyists came into the Senate and they're like, well, this company wants that and that corporation wants that. And remember all that stuff we did about the tax and the overtime and the tips and stuff, got tricked MAGA into thinking that was like a huge part of the bill. that was the majority of the tax cuts. You can see it right there in the numbers. It is tiny, tiny, tiny part of the tax cuts. And as Anna explained, they expire. But the ones for the businesses, they are always permanent.

And that's what totally robs our revenue and our government of any ability to sustain itself and adds tremendously to the debt. Can I just add one other thing about the tax breaks for businesses? Now, keep in mind that in 2017, when Trump's original version of the tax, you know, tax cut legislation passed, it ensured that the corporate tax rate was lowered from 35% to 21%, and he did not get rid of corporate tax loopholes, meaning that those deductions that corporations take advantage of remain in place. Those corporate tax cuts were permanent in the 2017 bill, meaning these additional tax breaks for businesses come on top of the already lowered corporate tax rate.

It's just absurd. It absolutely is absurd. So here, last one from the where they're adding on provisions. So it's the last one on the list. Savings account for newborns. Don't sleep on that one. That one's actually a really good proposal originally by Cory Booker. And that actually has its roots in reparations, believe it or not, but they're applying it to all the kids. So it's a wave starting it by savings account for your kids when they're born, I don't know anybody that's supposed to it. That's wonderful. You see credit where credit is too. It's so small, it's $17 billion. Right. The other one that half of which goes to the

rich is $2.2 trillion. And half of which I say go to the rich, most of it go to the rich, that half it goes to the top 1%. So 17 billion for the new kids, 1.1 trillion for people making about 500,000 dollars. But if that's not enough, they add another $564 billion on for business breaks that didn't exist before. That's why even as they cut Medicaid even more in the Senate version, they still add to the debt more than the House version because they loaded up with pork for all their donors. Yeah, that's right. Look, if you take these little tiny separate provisions, sure, you can make a case that there are a few good things in the bill. Overall, when you look at the grand scheme

of things, this bill is disastrous for the American people and the future of this country considering how much it's adding to our already massive federal debt of $37 trillion. So for instance, as you can see from what the lawmakers plan to focus most of their savings on, why are they specifically going after Medicaid recipients, the most vulnerable among us? And today the Senate had a voterrama where they voted on a slew of amendments to the bill, including many proposed by Democrats that were, of course, rejected since they're in the minority. and for Medicare fraudster, Rick Scott, and I mean that, you know, in the actual sense of the word, he is a fraudster. He was involved in the biggest Medicare fraud scheme in American history.

Well, he looks at that $1.1 trillion being proposed in Medicaid cuts in the Senate and says, no, not enough. I want more cuts. I want them to go deeper. The proposal, by the way, would lower the share of medical bills paid by the federal government for childless adult Medicaid beneficiaries who sign up for the program after 2030 and could cause several states to abandon their Medicaid expansions. So that is the proposal, or I should say the amendment that Rick Scott is proposing here. He wants the cuts to go even deeper. CBO found Scott's amendment would save another $313 billion over 10 years, according to his office.

By the way, this is a side note. Today, the Trump administration approved another $510 million in weapons for Israel with no debate whatsoever. That's American taxpayer money funding bombs for a country that's currently carrying out a genocide in Gaza. How many billions? Millions, 510 million. Now, that's not in the billions, but that comes on top of the tens of billions of dollars in weaponry that American taxpayers have been funding for Israel since the beginning of this genocide. Yeah, just real quick.

No debate on that, by the way. I heard you say that I wasn't sure what the number was because if you don't know, over the last 12 months or so, we've given Israel another $30 billion. So they just, the press almost never reported. reports on it. And whenever you hear reports of, oh, how much does Israel get in aid? They always say 3.8 billion. That's the standard that they get every year without these extra goodies that they throw in every once in a lot. 20 million from Biden, 10 billion, I'm sorry, 10 billion from Trump. And now another half a billion from Trump. They just keep,

like everything else you have to question, oh, children, we're gonna cut. Medicaid, snap, you're hungry, your kid has cancer, cut, cut, cut, cut. Israel, don't even question it. Don't even report on it. No debate, no nothing. If Israel asks, you must give the money, right? Everything else is negotiable. Right, our government is occupied. And you're telling me that this is America first, come on, nobody believes that. Unless you're an idiot mainstream media reporter, nobody thinks that Washington puts America first. Everybody knows Congress puts Israel first. Now other Republicans in the Senate have tried to get their amendments passed as well,

including Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who's considered to be more moderate in the Republican party. She's actually very concerned about the Medicaid cuts, as are a few other Republican senators because they look at their states, they look at the high percentage of their own constituents who rely on Medicaid, and they're worried about the political ramifications of cutting Medicaid so deeply. Collins filed an amendment that would double the stabilization fund for rural hospitals to $50 billion and pay for it by adding a 39, point six percent tax bracket on earners making above or over 25 million dollars. Now at least two Republican senators, Tom Tillis of North Carolina, and Rand Paul from

the state of Kentucky have said that they will not vote in favor of this legislation as it currently stands. Just four defections, by the way, would be enough to kill this bill. And as of right now, at least half a dozen Republican senators have remained undecided. Yeah, I think, I know, exactly. I think that most of them are probably going to bow their heads to Donald Trump, who is bullying the Republicans in the Senate currently because he wants to get this bill passed as soon as possible so he can meet that self-imposed July 4th deadline. Senator John Federman, meanwhile, is basically just whining about having to do his job at all.

This is a Democrat, by the way, a guy who ran as a progressive, but he's anything but he told reporters today, oh my God, I just want to go home. You know, why don't you go home and stay home? He continues to say, I've already missed our entire trip to the beach. I'm going to vote no, there's no drama. Well, at least he's going to vote no. All right, which is kind of surprising. Maybe that's why they did the Israel thing separate.

Yeah. So that Federman could be like, yes, yes, definitely yes to Israel. Okay, I'm shocked that he votes with Democrats at all on anything. So final thing, Jake. Yeah. As we mentioned earlier, this is a deeply unpopular. popular bill and Harry Anton was mentioning that early on in the segment. I want you to hear more of what he found through the data.

Take a look. Well, let's take a look at the net favorable rating on the big, beautiful bill. I don't just got one poll for you, Omar. I got five of them and the net favorable rating minus 19 points Washington Post, minus 20 points Pew Research Center, Fox minus 21, Quinnipiac University minus 26, KFF minus 29. The American public at this particular point, hate, hate, hate, the big, beautiful bill. Trump's policies and your family, help or hurt, the big beautiful bill, just 23% say help. How about 49%, 49% say hurt?

Look, that's a 26 point difference in the direction of hurt. The American people elected Trump to help them and their families, but they see the big, beautiful bill as one that on the whole hurts their families. And you might be thinking, well, I mean, they're probably polling both Democrats and Republicans. Of course, Democrats aren't going to favor this legislation, but let's take a look at Republicans specifically. How do Republican voters feel about this bill? And if you take a look at these polling results, you'll find that a whopping 64% find, I'm sorry, let's go to, okay, so 64% find it unfavorable in total. But if you go to Republicans,

36% find it unfavorable, 61% have a favorable view of the legislation. Now among Republicans, and Republican-leaning independence among MAGA supporters, 72% find it favorable. But for non-Maga supporters, 66% find it unfavorable. So, Jank, he might just be focusing on the fact that Republican voters, for the most part, find this bill to be favorable. Yeah, so let me tell you all the downsides of it and why people don't like it, and then I'll tell you why it's going to pass and easily that all of this is fake drama. So even minus 20, even 27% being opposed within MAGA is kind of a giant number.

So over quarter of MAGA saying, no, I hate Donald Trump's so called big beautiful bill. Well, to be fair, they didn't say hate, they just said they're not in support of it, right? And then to me, the most important line is always the independents. The independents decide the elections, period, right? So you could almost always ignore the Democrats or the Republicans on any given poll. Just look at the independence. So where do they come out? 70 to 27 against.

That's a monster number. It's a monster. Minus 43, minus 43 with independence. So the American people hate this bill. So why do they hate it? I mean, look, all the reasons we just stated, but I'll just tell you two that are glaring. And when you look at the internal of the polling, and they break it down by issues, these are in the bottom three for least popular, right?

One is the $1.1 trillion tax cut that goes to people making above $500,000 a year, right? So why are we adding over a trillion dollars to the debt for no reason? I mean, do they really desperately need another trillion dollar tax cut? So don't talk to me about balanced budgets if you're going to give another $1.1 to people making about $500,000. So people look at that and they go, oh, okay, so half of the Trump tax cuts are a giveaway to the top 1%. So that's just unbearable. Okay, but that's terrible and you're adding to the dead. But then when you cut from Medicaid and snap, by the way, Trump said he wasn't going to cut from Medicaid.

Total utter lie, they're butchering Medicaid. So at least 800 billion on the House side, now over $1.1 trillion on Medicaid alone on the Senate side, okay? Because Rick Scott's what guy who didn't rob it enough when I was in private, you know, when I was at a private company, I'd like to rob it now as a senator. Right? And so guys, if they're gonna kick off 12 million people from having healthcare, they're gonna get sick, they're gonna need that healthcare, and then they're gonna be enraged. By the way, half of those guys, Trump voters. So I don't know what's going to happen after that. Are the Trump voters gonna go, hey, you know what? My kid didn't need cancer treatment. I'm happy I voted for Trump and these sons of bitch Republicans who took that away. Or are they gonna

be super pissed because they thought, oh, no, no, Trump daddy's going to do it to others. Not to me. Not to me. He's going to get the bad undocumented guys and the criminals. Oh, he gave a giant tax cut for himself and for all of his donors and took it from me. Okay, my guess is that that catches up with you at some point. And I don't want to hear anything from Josh Hawley because Josh Hawley talked a big game. 100%. Thank you for bringing him up. Josh Hawley is a fraud. He's a fraud. A lot of tough talk during his Senate hearings where he pretends to be some sort of warrior on behalf of working class Americans, but when push comes to shove, he's going to do his donors a solid. He's going to do the business community a solid. He's going to do wealthy people, the wealthiest among us, a solid, knowing that this legislation is going to kick nearly 12 million Americans off of Medicaid. Medicaid, like literally the most vulnerable people on the planet are the ones who are going to suffer the most. Just so the wealthy can get more in tax breaks.

They're literally going to rob the poor to pay the rich. 100% literally. That's what this bill is as it stands today. That's why it's at minus 26, right? But none of that is gonna matter. It's definitely going to pass. So I've been through this movie dozens of times where Republicans like Holly and Ron Johnson will come on and go,

I don't know, man, this is gonna add to the deficit. We better cut more from the poor in the middle class. But they never suggest, hey, maybe we shouldn't give another multi-trillion dollar tax cut to the rich. Never, never, because they work for the rich, right? So at the end, you know what they do? They cut every single time. They cut from the poor in the middle class, and they add trillions to the debt, trillions every time, right? And this one will add at least 3.4 trillion to the debt.

And then they'll say, oh yeah, later it'll trickle on you from the rich. and somehow magically it won't add to the debt. My ass, they're gonna add another giant chunk of the debt because they're robbing you. It's this is, the Republicans rob you every single time. If you ask me, why am I a Democrat when I get so frustrated with the Democratic establishment, time and time again? Because the only thing Republicans get elected to do is to rob the middle class and the poor to pay their rich donors.

That's the whole point of the existence of the Republican Party. If you don't know that, and I know a lot of you don't know that, Welcome to the country. Just look at the last 40 years of history that is literally the only thing they do other than start wars. Okay, so now you can say Trump is different, but this bill's the same goddamn bill that every establishment Republican has ever pushed. It's the same unit party junk, and it's brought to you by Donald Trump, a wolf and sheep's populous sheep clothing. Well, one Republican senator is pushing back against the bill, so much so much. that he's decided, I'm not going to run for reelection because I'm crossing Donald Trump

and there are consequences for that. So we'll tell you who the senator is and what he's feuding with Trump about when we come back. toothpaste, innovative toothbrush, and a refreshing antibacterial mouthwash, all designed to work together to fight the root cause of common oral health issues, such as gingivitis, plaque, and tartar. Use the full routine twice daily and be dentist ready. Shop the Colgate Total Active Prevention System now at walmart.ca. All right, back on T. Yankana, with you guys. More news. Well, Republican Senator is not going to be seeking re-election because he made the mistake of crossing Trump.

Who is it? And what's going on here? What do I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys? I think when the White House, the features advising the president are not telling him that the effect of this bill is to break a promise. Republicans are about to make a mistake on health care and betraying a promise. North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis will not be seeking re-election, mostly because of what you just heard him say on the Senate floor.

He crossed Daddy Trump, and I guess that's not allowed. when you're in the Republican Party. This news comes after the senator essentially pushed back against provisions in Trump's so-called big beautiful bill that would essentially cut Medicaid to the tune of $1.1 trillion. Now, the New York Times reports that Tillis had been privately critical of this provision, and even warned his colleagues about the political ramifications of kicking vulnerable Americans off of Medicaid rolls. But over the weekend, he decided to go public and become become a lot more overt in regard to his disdain for that provision.

And in a post on X, Tillis explained that he has a problem with the changes to Medicaid, saying that I cannot support this bill in its current form. It would result in tens of billions of dollars in lost funding for North Carolina, including our hospitals and rural communities. This will force the state to make painful decisions like eliminating Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands in the expansion population, and even reducing critical services for those in the traditional Medicaid population. Tillis also notes that there are provisions in the bill that he's on board with.

Of course, he loves the tax cuts and more. He says there is a lot for North Carolinians to love about the rest of the one big, beautiful bill, including extending the historic Trump tax cuts, increasing the child tax credit, which I personally am in favor for as well, providing historic funding for border security and ending wasteful spending. Now, I just want to be clear, the bill, as it stands right now, would add to the national debt to the tune of $3.4 trillion, but he does want to try to accomplish all the provisions that he likes without the Medicaid cuts. He says, we can and must accomplish this without

hurting our rural communities and hospitals and without jeopardizing access to care for hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians who need it the most. Now, Tillis told reporters that he had a nice, friendly civil chat with Trump about his concerns. He says that this conversation took place on Saturday. I had a very good discussion with President Trump last night. I told him at that point that I had problems with the Medicaid implementation. And I said the House bill, I think, would be a good mark. By the way, the House bill, of course, also cuts Medicaid. It's just that it cuts Medicaid a little less than the Senate version. He says, I do believe the president is really focused on getting the tax portion of the bill done, and I support that full stop.

But it has evolved from a tax bill to one that includes health care and other things. And I said that in non-tax areas, we have a problem. Now, in return of saying that he had a pleasant conversation with Trump, Trump basically rewarded him by threatening him with primary challengers. He writes on truth social, numerous people have come forward wanting to run in the primary against Tom Tillis. I will be meeting with them over the coming weeks, looking for someone who will properly represent the great people of North Carolina and so importantly, the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter. And literally the next day, Tillis announced that he will not be seeking reelection in 2026.

Cenk. Yeah. So first of all, you know a Republican senator is retiring when he wears a Native American bolo tie. Okay, that's his, I had a t-shirt. Okay, that's. It's him saying sianara, guys. Now he's more of a traditional republicans, so don't give him too much credit. I'll come back to that in a second. First, some fun polls for you guys. On t.com, what do you think will happen to Trump's budget bill? A, it won't pass.

B, it'll pass with huge tax cuts and huge deficits. C, it'll pass and have a balanced budget. Laugh along with me. D, it'll pass because they'll take out the tax cuts. Laugh along with me. Okay, so that's on tyt.com. Curious what you guys think about that. During the live chat, we also have a poll up in the live chat,

Is Tom Tillis leaving the Senate good for Democrats or Republicans or no one? It's clearly good for Democrats, in my opinion, because, but there's a asterisk in there. Because it's a Republican-held seat. North Carolina is a purple state at this point. Tom Tillis being considered and labeled by mainstream media as more moderate has a better chance of holding that seat. They'll probably pick a radical in their primary and then have an excellent chance of losing. But even if they don't pick a radical, they still stay in a pretty good chance of losing that seat once you remove the incumbent. So that definitely helps the Democrats.

Now back to the Republicans, I don't mind Trump doing these primaries. And this one is actually a perfectly legitimate one because normally he does it if he feels offended for whatever reason personally. Like, oh, that guy says something about my hair or my orange tan. That said primary him, right? Or the slightest little provocation. No, this is him trying to pass his bill and saying, If you don't vote for my bill, I'm gonna primary you, that is normal politics. Democrats should do that a lot more often on their side, okay?

So I don't begrudge him that, that none of those are the issue. What's the issue is what's in the bill, right? So you could tell that Tom Tillis is no, you know, angel either. He says, oh, I only want 800 million, I'm sorry, 800 billion in Medicaid cuts, not 1.1 trillion in Medicaid cuts. The 800 billion is already disastrous. It is, yeah. Would have already kicked off 10 million from having healthcare instead of 12 million Americans, right?

It's still a terrible disaster. And what does he say? Just like Ron Johnson, just like Rand Paul, okay, they always say the same thing. I mean, the tax cuts for the rich. I would definitely keep the tax cuts for the rich, okay? The tax cuts are the most important thing. But brother, if we did it your way, you would, the bill would add even more to the debt, right? So because you keep the tax cuts, you don't have as money spending cuts.

Good, I don't want those particular spending cuts. By the way, notice in all of this, nobody's cutting almost any corporate subsidies. They cut from renewable energies because they have the giant amount that the big oil gives them. And plus they got a grudge against anything that's renewable or goes to the future. They always want to go backwards, right? But outside of that, 17 billion in oil subsidies, 150 billion more to defense contractors. It's $34 billion in Golden Dome and adding and adding, corporate pork on top of corporate pork.

Tom Tillis doesn't mind any of that. Josh Hawley doesn't mind any of that. None of the Republicans mind any of that. So what's gonna happen at the end? It doesn't, all these objections are junk. It's all theater. It is all theater. I've seen it play out so many.

Every time a Republican president gets into office, we have this fake, fake theater. And at the end, they pass a bill with giant tax cuts for the rich, That cuts from the poor in the middle class and at the end adds $2 to $8 trillion to the debt. In this case, it looks like it's gonna be around $3 to $4 trillion. So I actually wanna tie this story and the fact that you're literally robbing from the poor to give to the rich and how this is the type of behavior in Congress that leads to a constituency that is a little more open-minded to someone like Zoran Mandami, right? Someone who comes out, identifies as a democratic socialist and talks about, you know, policies that seem radical to, you know, politicians and Congress, but to the American people,

it's like, all right, well, we've been dealing with neoliberalism for how long, okay, nothing's trickling down on us, they keep robbing from us. Taxpayers see their resources go toward endless wars in the Middle East, endless weapons to Israel with no debate whatsoever, right? We're talking about tens of billions of dollars. And in the mean, In the meantime, Congress is nickel and diming the American people, especially the most vulnerable among us. So if you don't understand the rise of a candidate like Mamdani, this is at the heart of it. This economic dysfunction and this ever growing gap between the rich and the poor in this

country. Yeah, so I was on Peers morning this morning and Pierce made an interesting point about how Mamdani is almost like a Democratic Trump. And the reason he said that is not as a negative thing. But as change, whatever we got to do, we were voting change, right? So the Republicans voted change and enough independence to go with Trump, right? Now this is Democrats in the largest city in the country going, we've had enough. We know Cuomo's not going to change anything.

I don't know if these exact policies are going to work, but I'll take it over the status quo any day. And that's what now both sides are screaming. We can't stand the status quo. The only people who still like it is every politician and every media figure in Washington, D.C. and they cover up a half a mountain that are ugly as hell. And by the way, the panels are all made, and the windmills, they're all made in China. Well, Trump has not changed his mind on renewable energy. And the president apparently has requested that Senate Republicans target renewable energy subsidies in their mega bill.

Now, this has provoked Elon Musk to essentially reignite his very public feud with the president. So let's get into it. Now, we should first talk about what the bill is targeting in particular that has upset Elon Musk because last Friday political reported that President Donald Trump is urging Senate Majority Leader John Thune to crack down on tax credits specifically for wind and solar energy as part of the so-called big beautiful bill, that mega bill, that omnibus bill. Now, it looks like Thune is delivering for Trump with Barron's reporting this morning that the bill would phase out tax credits for large scale wind and solar projects by the end of

2027 earlier than in previous versions. Projects must now be in service by December 31st, 2027 to qualify. Now the Senate bill also phases out tax credits for residential solar projects as it did in the House version of the bill. But Senate Republicans went even further by adding, get a load of this, a tax on wind and solar energy. So how would that work? Well, the tax would apply to wind and solar projects completed after 2027 if they use a certain percentage of components from China, the industry's primary supplier of everything from critical minerals to batteries. Other forms of renewable energy such as geothermal, hydropower, and nuclear are not targeted by the bill. So as you can imagine, Elon Musk is super salty.

about this, he's been a long-time advocate of renewable energy, and now he's slamming the tax on wind and solar energy, posting on X that the latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country, utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future. Now clearly he has his own personal conflict of interest here, but I think he's right in what he's pointing at. He also says in response to a post saying by 2030, China could have the ability to produce enough solar and storage infrastructure each year to match the entire electricity, generation capacity of the United States. Elon Musk quote tweets that and says, yes, the massive

strategic error is being made right now to damage solar slash battery that will leave America extremely vulnerable in the future. And he also replied, or I should say he or Yeah, he replied to this post by Ron Wyden showing that Republicans are basically going to cut $930 billion in Medicaid in order to pay for major tax breaks for corporations. And he is, by the way, retweeting Thomas Massey, who says BBB, meaning big beautiful bill equals our credit rating if this bill becomes law. Again, Musk retweeted that. I thought that was kind of clever.

And he's threatening to essentially form a new political party to go after anyone who votes in favor of this legislation. He also says it is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record $5 trillion, that we live in a one-party country, the Porky Pig Party, time for a new political party that actually cares about the people. I would venture to say that Elon Musk is not an authority on who cares about the people of this country, but nonetheless, a point taken about how this bill is a disaster for the American people. Okay, so we're asking the poll in the live chat, is it time for a new political party to be formed? Okay, curious about your answers there. So now, they're both right and they're both wrong about Elon Musk and Donald Trump. So what are they right and wrong about?

So is Elon Musk right that this bill is a disaster? Yes, absolutely. Is he right that it makes no sense to take subsidies away from a nascent industry that needs it to set up infrastructure and to give it to an industry that's been around for 110 years is the most profitable industry in the world and doesn't need any subsidies at all? Yeah, of course he's right about that. I mean, even if you don't agree that we should give subsidies to solar or wind or Tesla. Right? Why are we giving 17 billion in subsidies to oil and gas? You literally have to pay for that. And by the way, just the same then Rokana did this bill where you could take actually cut $12 trillion from the deficit, $12 trillion. And you don't lose anything, it's amazing, it's you think it's like magic because it's not magic, you just stop giving everything to corporations, right? And so a friend of mine who was traditional Republican watched that interview, he's like,

I don't get it, that makes perfect sense. Why don't they do that? And among the many, many savings, and once you take out corporate subsidies and giveaways, is the oil one, oil and gas one. It's just, and no, but isn't it interesting that other than Rokana and Bernie Sanders, there's no Democrat that makes a big deal out of it? Like, why isn't leadership going, why are you giving this 17 billion away? Like, that's like more than four times the amount of money we normally give to Israel in any

given year. What leadership are you talking about? Are you talking about Hakeem Jeffries? Hakeem Jeffries, Schumer. They're both totally asleep. No, they're purposely asleep. Yeah. Yeah.

And the reason for that is, and you know, these donors complaining about, oh my God, I don't know about Kamal Harris in California. We did that story on Friday. Oh my God, Joe Biden. No, no, no, guys, Democratic donors, you pick empty vessels on purpose so that they will follow your orders. So then don't be surprised when Chuck Schumer and Akeem Jeffries and Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are all empty vessels.

That's why you chose them. If anyone has any interesting ideas, you go, oh, I'm not funding that. Change, no way, I'm at the top, I don't want any change. That's why you have these loser Democratic leaders, because the donors picked them to be losers. So anyway, they love that these taxes for the rich are gonna pass. They're like, oh, golly, gee, are they gonna pass again like they do every single time? Oh, when we get in, oh, there's nothing we can pass. The mighty parliamentarian has defeated all of our bills.

The Republicans right now, they're gonna pass everything and there's nothing we can do, okay? So anyways, so Elon is right, there's no need for the oil and gas subsidies and coal. What are we doing with coal, right? But then Trump is right that Elon just wants his own subsidies and is super mad about it, right? So, and give Trump a little bit of credit for at least not listening to that donor, and that was his top donor at over $300 million, right? So a fairest show in America. Now, having said that, they're both wrong.

This is a giant disaster of a bill with all the corporate giveaways and all the giveaways for the rich. So would Elon change the bill so that it doesn't give away 1.1 trillion to people making about $500,000? Of course not. No way. Would he change it so that you end the $562 billion in corporate pork that's stuffed in there for no reason?

Maybe if it's against some industries that compete against them like oil and gas, but other And other than that, he's like, oh, I want the goodies, I want the goodies. So he's not doing it out of the goodness of his heart. He's like, I paid for my subsidies, not for their subsidies, and now I'm getting stiffed. Well, welcome to Donald Trump's career, that's what he always does. So they're both wrong, this bill sucks, and Elon Musk wouldn't make it any better. But I like that he's criticizing it, because the things he's saying about the downsides of the bill are true. Agreed.

All right, we got to take a break when we come back, we're gonna get into some foreign policy, including yet another weapons package that's been approved for Israel. We'll talk about what's happening in Gaza. Don't miss it. We'll be back with those stories and more. TYT, Jank, Anna, and DJ Payne, something we might all be in if this bill passes. All right, DJ Payne, thanks for hitting that beautiful join button, that big, beautiful join button underneath the video. Okay, you know, t.wit.com slash join also. Beautiful. Beautiful. Sounds like a New Yorker there. All right. You know, it's not beautiful, this.

have caused multiple casualties. Some of the dead were from one family, killed in an encampment for the displaced in the Almwasi area. Children were also among the victims. They bombed us while we are sleeping on the ground. We didn't do anything wrong. Two of my children have died

and the rest are in intensive care. care. There's no flower, no supplies, no food or water. We are moving from one place to another. What have we done to deserve this? Well, as the carnage against Palestinians in Gaza continues, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced another round of evacuations in northern Gaza in order to carry out a new offensive, of course, as this genocide continues. So, it's all likely because he wants to continue postponing his corruption trial. And unfortunately, the courts in Israel have granted him another one week postponement. Now, his tactic again, has worked for now. Let's watch. Ben Yomín Netanyahu will be convening his security

cabinet. He was supposed to be in court this week on the stand in a long running, often delayed corruption trial. He's accused of charges including bribery and fraud. He denies them all. Judges agreed he could be excused on diplomatic and security grounds for now. Israeli officials are heading to the White House today for talks on Gaza and Iran. President Trump has called on Israel to quote, make the deal in Gaza. Well, the postponement for now is just a technical thing. The trial after five years is at a stage where Netanyahu is taking taken the stand and he's now answering the questions of the prosecution. So it's an uncomfortable stage of the trial for him.

But he's already in that stage and the postponement now is just a week after the judges have been convinced by the heads of Israeli security branches that there's something very important that the Prime Minister needs to deal with and therefore therefore they have to wait until they resume the trial. Yeah, well the courts need to stop giving him postponements because if he's going to continue using the genocide that he's carrying out in Gaza as an excuse to continue postponing his corruption trial, he's going to keep the genocide going. And that's what has been happening since the very beginning of this war. Massacres of Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli

defense forces have been ramped up in recent days. In fact, just today, at least 60 people across Gaza were killed in heavy Israeli attacks. A journalist was among those who were killed in Gaza City specifically. The Gaza Health Ministry also says that at least 81 Palestinians have been killed and more than 400 injured in Israeli strikes across Gaza in the 24 hours until midday on Saturday. In one incident, at least 11 people, including children of course, were killed after a strike near a stadium in Gaza City. Al-Shifa hospital staff and witnesses told news agencies, the stadium was being used to house

displaced people living in tents. So the IDF continues bombing, you know, literally like these tent encampments because Palestinians have been displaced, nearly every single residential building has been bombed. It's a complete, and utter disaster. And on one hand, you have Trump claiming, you know, I want a ceasefire deal, ceasefire now. Well, why did you approve another weapons package for Israel to the tune of $510 million? And I can get into the details about those weapons in just a moment. But you can't on one hand call for an end to the war, and then on the other hand,

continue rewarding Israel with endless weaponry, paid for by US taxpayers, by the way. Yeah, that's because he's negotiating with the donor class. He's saying, look, I made him stop attacking Iran, okay, then I'll give you something in return. I'll give you half a billion dollars in war. But wait, why do we have to give them anything? They're taking money from us, they're asking for help, they're asking to drive us into war. What do we get back? And the answer is always absolutely nothing.

Nothing but grief and enemies and a stain on our nation's history for financing a genocide. And but Trump's negotiating, but who's he negotiating with? He's already the president of the United States. Apparently there are people that are more powerful than the president. That's why Trump's like, okay, okay, okay, I'm so sorry for making you stop bombing Iran. Here's a $500 million a million gift, right? Yeah, et cetera. Okay, so now you're saying, all right, look, I get it.

Gaza's a slaughterhouse, Israel's killing people almost for sport now. We reported last week about how they're playing squid games, a version and Israeli version of red light green light. And it's the operation is named after it. It's called salted fish and the operation is operation of salted fish. Okay, so they're just, it's now just like beyond this. It's disgusting. Everyone that keeps killing in Gaza are gonna go straight to a museum one day.

They're all gonna be in some sort of genocide or remembrance museum. I hope to God one day Smotrich and Ben Gavir, let alone Netanyahu are arrested. So we'll come back to that. But I want to talk about Smotrich because it's critical to what you're seeing today. If you're saying, yeah, I got it. It's like they do bombing a whole town, but why bombing northern Gaza again? Because they're trying to drive people into the south. Why are they trying to drive them to the south?

Well, that brings me to this quote from Smotrich from the times of Israel. Within a few months, Smotrich says, we'll be able to declare that we have won. Gaza will be totally destroyed. And he says, in another six months, Hamas won't exist as a functioning entity. Oh good, then you have no reason to be there, right? No, he continues. The population of Gaza will be concentrated from the Morak corridor southwards. the rest of the strip will be empty.

He then adds, the Gaza citizens will be concentrated in the south. They'll be totally despairing, understanding there is no hope and nothing to look for in Gaza, and will be looking for relocation to be in a new life in other places. This is the country, by the way, that has a clandestine nuclear weapons program. They have nuclear weapons. They're not part of the nonproliferation agreement. They are currently engaged in genociding Palestinians in Gaza. They plan on annexing the entirety of the West Bank, a territory that belongs to the Palestinian

people. And they have the audacity to talk about what a threat Iran is when Iran has shown on multiple occasions a level of restraint that blows my mind. Okay, Israel bombs the Iranian embassy in Syria. How does Iran respond? They wait a few days, and then they hit up Trump, They hit up the Israeli government and they let them know, we're gonna do theater, essentially. Make it appear like we're retaliating, but here's where the missiles are going to go so you can strike them down. Okay, you have the United States, you know, doing Israel's dirty work in bombing Iran nuclear facilities, and how does Iran respond? Okay, we're gonna retaliate, but it's all gonna be pretend, we're gonna target these US bases in the Middle East, but we're gonna warn you ahead of time so no one gets hurt, so we can at least make it a appear as though we're retaliating for our people.

Like, I'm sorry, but I'm getting really tired of hearing about how the genocidal country of Israel is the good country, the moral country, the country that should have illegal, okay, nuclear weapons that they don't even acknowledge. And the ones that we should worry about the most are the Iranians because they do chance that we don't like. Get out of here. Look, look, you could deny this if you're an Israel supporter, but I don't know, I don't I don't even think Israel supporters would overly deny it.

Israel's a threat, okay, the real threat. Hold on, hold on, yeah, go ahead. The country most likely to use a nuke is overwhelmingly Israel. 100%. Because look, the reason why I say a lot of Israel supporters would also agree is, my God, if they're slightly in danger, they're gonna press that button so quick, okay? I mean, you know it, you know it. Look, Iran is in danger all the time, constantly bombed by Israel, America, et cetera.

So many other countries that are in danger, and they don't use those, now Iran doesn't have nukes, so they couldn't use them anyway, right? But the minute Israel gets jittery, they're gonna press that button, by far the most likely to use it, because they have a population and a government that is deeply, deeply paranoid. They think the whole world hates them, and they have to attack first before anyone even thinks about attacking them. The whole world does hate them. But because of this genesis.

Because of this, right? Okay, like, I'm so, how are you gonna put your yourself in the position of like poor little victims, when they're slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent people, not feeling any remorse about it whatsoever. You literally have people in the Israeli government who don't believe there's a single innocent person in Gaza. Yeah. They think they're all violent, dangerous terrorists.

But honestly, who are the terrorists here? When you're just slaughtering all these children willy-nilly, Heretz reported today, 17,000 children slaughtered in Gaza so far. Yeah, no, there's no question. The Israeli government is definitely more dangerous. It's, by the way, also more religious nut jobs. Like, part of the reason I hate the Iranian regime is because they're fundamentalist nut jobs, right? But are they crazier than Smotrich and Ben Gavir?

No way, no way. Because Ben Gavir and Smutrich are proven genocidal religious maniacs, whereas we're worried that the Ayatollah is someone who could commit a lot of violence and is a religious maniac, right? But okay, so by the way, one of our members made a really good point last week. They said, so let me get this right. In this ceasefire negotiations, Iran is asking that Israel also stop attacking Gaza. That's their number one ask. Yeah.

So they're asking on behalf of another people. By the way, the Palestinians aren't even Shia like Iran is. They're Sunni. On behalf of a rival sect, they're saying, can you please stop murdering those people? What is Israel asking that Trump support Bibi Netanyahu in his corruption charges? Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, it gives you a sense of morality. I'm not defending the Iranian regime.

I'm just showing you how much more despicable the Israeli regime is. And so you can cry about it, you can do propaganda, but Israel attacked Iran. Israel is the one that has attacked almost all of its neighbors. Iran not only got attacked by Israel, America, they also got attacked by Iraq. And back then, we were on Iraq side. And Iraq used biological and chemical weapons on Iran. Iran has been attacked and attacked and attacked while our lying mainstream media, our lying politicians told you Iran is dangerous evil.

They're the real problem. That's why we should murder them first, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you stupid warmongers. So now lastly, back to this story here about how Israel is driving them to the south. So if you're wondering, hey, then most of these stories, Israel's not even, like sometimes they pretend to have targeted a Hamas guy. A lot of times they don't even give an, almost all the time, they never give a name. They're like, yeah, there was some militant in the area.

And then they just murder a bunch of children and families. And if you're wondering why, like, do they just like like killing kids? No, they're bombing the families to drive them to the south so they could finish the Smoutridge plan, which is to make life in Gaza so unbearable through murder and starvation that they could push him into the Sinai desert and take all of Gaza for greater Israel. Now that's from the river to the sea, but actually done and executed and planned by our beloved ally, the moral army, okay? No, the disgusting government of Israel that is trying to add ethnic cleansing on top of their daily terrorism against Palestinian. civilians and children. And for Israelis or Israel defenders who want to come at me for working on a show called

the Young Turks as if you give a damn about the Armenian people, let's just be abundantly clear about which country supplied the weapons to Azerbaijan to engage in their ethnic cleansing of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. It was Israel, of course. Of course. So please don't even try to come at me as if Israelis give a damn about the Armenian people because they don't. Israelis care about Israelis. End of story. Let's take a break, we'll be back.