Jonathan V. Last

Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Delighted to have back at the show, staff writer at The Atlantic, writing about American politics and policy and triggering John Podoritz and the far left daily. It's Jonathan Chait. What's happening?

Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Delighted to have back at the show, staff writer at The Atlantic, writing about American politics and policy and triggering John Podoritz and the far left daily. It's Jonathan Chait. What's happening?

Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Delighted to have back at the show, staff writer at The Atlantic, writing about American politics and policy and triggering John Podoritz and the far left daily. It's Jonathan Chait. What's happening?

I'm so glad to be on your show again, Tim.

I'm so glad to be on your show again, Tim.

I'm so glad to be on your show again, Tim.

It's good to have you. So we have passed, the House, rather, has passed by one vote, what they've termed the Big Beautiful Bill. Sarah Longwell and Bill Kristol are trying to rebrand as the big fugly turd. And I guess you have an article out this morning about how it's the largest upward wealth transfer in American history.

It's good to have you. So we have passed, the House, rather, has passed by one vote, what they've termed the Big Beautiful Bill. Sarah Longwell and Bill Kristol are trying to rebrand as the big fugly turd. And I guess you have an article out this morning about how it's the largest upward wealth transfer in American history.

It's good to have you. So we have passed, the House, rather, has passed by one vote, what they've termed the Big Beautiful Bill. Sarah Longwell and Bill Kristol are trying to rebrand as the big fugly turd. And I guess you have an article out this morning about how it's the largest upward wealth transfer in American history.

Why don't we just get your overall reaction, then we'll kind of go through the policy and politics of it.

Why don't we just get your overall reaction, then we'll kind of go through the policy and politics of it.

Why don't we just get your overall reaction, then we'll kind of go through the policy and politics of it.

It's pretty shocking in a way that Republicans were willing to absorb the political and economic risks that this legislation is going to cause them. The political risks of combining two unpopular things, tax cuts for the rich and Medicaid cuts, and the economic risks of blowing up the deficit at a time when

It's pretty shocking in a way that Republicans were willing to absorb the political and economic risks that this legislation is going to cause them. The political risks of combining two unpopular things, tax cuts for the rich and Medicaid cuts, and the economic risks of blowing up the deficit at a time when

It's pretty shocking in a way that Republicans were willing to absorb the political and economic risks that this legislation is going to cause them. The political risks of combining two unpopular things, tax cuts for the rich and Medicaid cuts, and the economic risks of blowing up the deficit at a time when

Interest rates are high and rising, and interest payments are already a trillion dollars a year, and the recovery is teetering from the trade war. To me, the argument I make in this piece is that just shows the level of ideological commitment they have to the project of shrinking redistribution. And that's really been the major theme of my writing since I started in journalism.

Interest rates are high and rising, and interest payments are already a trillion dollars a year, and the recovery is teetering from the trade war. To me, the argument I make in this piece is that just shows the level of ideological commitment they have to the project of shrinking redistribution. And that's really been the major theme of my writing since I started in journalism.

Interest rates are high and rising, and interest payments are already a trillion dollars a year, and the recovery is teetering from the trade war. To me, the argument I make in this piece is that just shows the level of ideological commitment they have to the project of shrinking redistribution. And that's really been the major theme of my writing since I started in journalism.

The Republican Party's just absolutely implacable commitment to shrinking redistribution. They just hate when the government taxes rich people to give money to people who aren't rich. They think it's just wrong. It's unfair at a cosmic level. And they'll do anything they can to roll it back. And that's what they're doing now.

The Republican Party's just absolutely implacable commitment to shrinking redistribution. They just hate when the government taxes rich people to give money to people who aren't rich. They think it's just wrong. It's unfair at a cosmic level. And they'll do anything they can to roll it back. And that's what they're doing now.