Lemon LIVE at 5 | Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' is Ugly on the Inside - May 19th, 2025
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What is Don Lemon’s opening take on cable news and the 'Big Beautiful Bill'?
Good evening, everybody. Welcome to Lemon Live at 5 on the Don Lemon channel. Okay. Why am I excited and in a great mood? I don't know. I actually don't know. I just am... I'm kind of tired of like all of this doom and gloom. And you know what's really funny? Like I looked up and I had the cable news on, which I should not have done. And I looked up at the cable news and everybody looks so depressed. Like all of the guests are sad. Let me see, I'm looking at some of it now. I'm gonna turn it off. All the guests are sad. And I don't know. I'm tired of hearing about this big, beautiful bill that it's just it's ridiculous. Do you know what I'm saying? It's like it's everything is just so depressing and everybody's eating their young and the Democrats are what Democrats.
What are you doing? Like, can you guys just focus on my opinion? Can you all just focus on the person who's in the White House right now and stop it with like Joe Biden is not in the White House anymore. Joe Biden was old. Joe Biden is old. How long have we known that? How long have we been like, you know, just Joe Biden is old. OK, we get it. He was old when he was in office. But guess what? He didn't fuck up the economy. As a matter of fact, the economy was pretty damn good. He didn't fuck up COVID. As a matter of fact, he did really, really well with COVID. And look, when the opportunity presented itself, by the way, producers, find that clip if you can of me questioning Kareem Jean-Pierre. When the opportunity, when it was the right time to ask about whether Joe Biden was going to run again, some of us actually did our jobs.
and asked the questions. And then now others are saying, oh my gosh, it's a coverup. You guys, there is no fucking coverup. If you didn't do your job, you are the ones who fucked up. That's on you. So I don't know why everybody's like all, you know, they're, oh my gosh, their panties are all in a wad about Joe Biden did this, Joe Biden did that. This person was covering up his team. I don't care. Joe Biden ain't in office no more. Jeezum. And let's talk about this. We're going to get to that one, right? Yes, I wish they'd leave the poor man alone. We're going to get to that one. But I want to talk about this big, beautiful bill, which is ridiculous. What's in this big, beautiful bill that they are running around trying to implement with not knowing anything about it?
They don't even have time to read it. Let's put up this Vox article about what's in Trump's big, beautiful bill. The ugly truth about Trump's big, beautiful bill. And by the way, a guest is going to come in just a little bit and we're going to discuss it. But this is the ugly truth about Trump's big, beautiful bill. Trump is promising tax cuts and a new golden age. Here's what's really inside of it. Let's go through a little bit of what's inside of it. Okay. President Donald Trump's second term has been dominated by his aggressive use of executive power, but now he is finally trying to get something through Congress. This week, Republicans, by the way, finally, Donald Trump has been in office since January 20th.
Was it January 20th? Yes. And he's just now getting something through the Congress. Everything else has been executive orders. That should show you the incompetence of this administration so far. This week, Republicans in the House of Representatives will attempt to pass what Donald Trump has deemed the one big, beautiful bill. It is the centerpiece, really the only major piece of Trump's legislative agenda. He is trying to stuff everything he wants into in hopes of ramming it through both the House and the Senate on a party line vote. Will he get it done? I don't know. Well, they've got control pretty much of both chambers. He wants a few things, main things from the bill. First is preventing the Trump tax cuts he passed back in 2017 from expiring at the end of the year.
This always galled me because people were saying, my taxes were lower under Donald Trump than they are under Joe Biden. That's a lie because the taxes that you were paying under Joe Biden were Donald Trump's taxes.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is Don Lemon’s opening take on cable news and the 'Big Beautiful Bill'?
0:15–11:42
2
What are the headline provisions inside Trump’s 'Big Beautiful Bill'?
11:42–18:34
3
How would the bill affect taxes, the debt ceiling, and who benefits?
18:34–24:00
4
Which healthcare cuts are in the bill and how many people could lose coverage?
24:00–32:41
5
How did experts and lawmakers react to the bill’s budget and deficit claims?
32:41–45:58
6
Why was the bill drafted and scheduled so quickly and secretly?
45:58–51:57
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