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The legislation, which now heads to the Senate, would slash taxes, steer more money to the military and border security, and pay for some of the costs with cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, education, and clean energy programs. Democrats, who uniformly oppose the bill, accused Republicans of voting to gut vital government programs to pay for tax breaks to the rich.

The legislation, which now heads to the Senate, would slash taxes, steer more money to the military and border security, and pay for some of the costs with cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, education, and clean energy programs. Democrats, who uniformly oppose the bill, accused Republicans of voting to gut vital government programs to pay for tax breaks to the rich.

Today's episode was produced by Rochelle Banja, Claire Tennis-Getter, and Muj Zaydi, with help from Alexandra Lee Young. It was edited by Maria Byrne and M.J. Davis-Lynn, with help from Mike Benoit. Contains original music by Marian Lozano and Pat McCusker, and was engineered by Chris Wood. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsberg of Wonderly.

Today's episode was produced by Rochelle Banja, Claire Tennis-Getter, and Muj Zaydi, with help from Alexandra Lee Young. It was edited by Maria Byrne and M.J. Davis-Lynn, with help from Mike Benoit. Contains original music by Marian Lozano and Pat McCusker, and was engineered by Chris Wood. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsberg of Wonderly.

Special thanks to Erica Solomon and Patrick Kingsley. That's it for The Daily. I'm Rachel Abrams. See you on Tuesday, after the holiday.

Special thanks to Erica Solomon and Patrick Kingsley. That's it for The Daily. I'm Rachel Abrams. See you on Tuesday, after the holiday.

From The New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily. President Trump once approached the challenge of ending Russia's war in Ukraine as a straight-ahead deal, something that he could achieve easily. But after months of trying, he's signaling that he might actually walk away.

From The New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily. President Trump once approached the challenge of ending Russia's war in Ukraine as a straight-ahead deal, something that he could achieve easily. But after months of trying, he's signaling that he might actually walk away.

Today, my colleague Michael Crowley on the phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin and what it tells us about how the conflict could end. It's Wednesday, May 21st. Michael, nice to speak with you. I don't think we've ever met before.

Today, my colleague Michael Crowley on the phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin and what it tells us about how the conflict could end. It's Wednesday, May 21st. Michael, nice to speak with you. I don't think we've ever met before.

Yeah, our pleasure. So, Michael, we want to talk to you about this two-hour phone call that happened between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that happened on Monday. But before we get there, we haven't really checked in on the war between Russia and Ukraine since that disastrous Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

Yeah, our pleasure. So, Michael, we want to talk to you about this two-hour phone call that happened between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that happened on Monday. But before we get there, we haven't really checked in on the war between Russia and Ukraine since that disastrous Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

I want to understand what happened in between Trump and Zelensky kind of blowing up at each other and this call that was, I think, pretty remarkable in a few ways.

I want to understand what happened in between Trump and Zelensky kind of blowing up at each other and this call that was, I think, pretty remarkable in a few ways.

Let's start at the beginning of that winding road. What was the immediate fallout from that meeting?

Let's start at the beginning of that winding road. What was the immediate fallout from that meeting?

So how did President Zelensky respond to all of this at the time?

So how did President Zelensky respond to all of this at the time?

And so what happened then?

And so what happened then?