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| As a taxpayer, as a worker, as a business owner, we want you to be able to enjoy the incredible benefits and bounty of the United States of America. | ||
| This country was built by your grandparents, by your parents, by your forebears. | ||
| You ought to have the right to live a good life in this country that wouldn't even exist were it not for the hard work of so many generations who came before us. | ||
| They didn't put in that work. | ||
| They didn't build this great country. | ||
| They didn't carve the greatest civilization in the history of the world out of a wilderness so that their ancestors and their descendants could see it fall into disrepair. | ||
| They did not build. | ||
| Look at Atlanta. | ||
| It's a beautiful city. | ||
| It's one of the most beautiful cities anywhere in the world. | ||
| The people who built Atlanta did not build it so that you would not be able to walk down the streets of Atlanta safely at night. | ||
| They built it so that you could enjoy it. | ||
| They built this country so that we could make an even greater America out of it. | ||
| And the policies of the Trump administration are meant for one simple reason, to empower you to live a great life in this country that all of us love. | ||
| We've got a lot of work done in the last seven months. | ||
| We're going to do a hell of a lot more work in the next three and a half years, and we're going to fight for you every single step of the way. | ||
| God bless you and thank you for having me here in Peachtree Center. | ||
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Brought to you, Curtis. | |
| Morning, everyone. | ||
| Let's begin with what is in this legislation. | ||
| $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. | ||
| Existing tax rates and brackets would become permanent. | ||
| State and local tax deduction would quadruple to $40,000 in five years, for five years, $350 billion for Trump's border and national security agenda. | ||
| New Medicaid work requirements and restricting state-levied fees on health care providers. | ||
| Restrictions on food stamps, new tax deductions on tips and overtime, and rollback of clean energy tax credits. | ||
| It raises the debt ceiling to $5 trillion. | ||
| And the CBO, that's the Congressional Budget Office, says the deficit would increase by $3.3 trillion over 10 years. | ||
| What is your view of the One Big Beautiful bill? | ||
| Take a look at a poll done by Pew Research recently. | ||
| They found that 46% disapprove, 32% approve, 23% were unsure when they asked folks at the beginning of August. | ||
| If you were one of those people that were unsure and now you've changed your opinion, or if you liked it, now you oppose it, you opposed it, now you like it, we want to hear from you this morning. | ||
| There are the lines on your screen. | ||
| Politico's headline ahead of JD Vance's visit to Georgia, the GOP's big problem in selling the big beautiful bill, says the vice president, the vice president JD Vance was in Georgia on Thursday to take a stab at pitching a massive bill that hasn't yet been fully implemented. | ||
| Here's what the vice president had to say on the economic benefits of the One Big Beautiful bill, which he referred to now as the working families tax cut. | ||
| This law means for you is that your take-home pay is going to go up over $10,000 over the next few years. | ||
| What that means is that if you're working an hour of overtime, the federal government is going to keep its money the hell out of your pocket. | ||
| Because if you're working hard, the government ought to leave you alone. | ||
| Ain't that the truth? | ||
| Do you have any single moms out there? | ||
| Any single dads? | ||
| Any people who work hard every single day? | ||
| I had a single mom, and for a time my mom worked at a restaurant. | ||
| She weighed tables like a lot of folks out there. | ||
| And you know what we did in this new law? | ||
| We said that if you're working hard and you're making your income via tips, we are not going to tax tips anymore because we want to give everybody out there that's working hard for those tips a little bit of relief. | ||
| And that's what the Working Families Tax Cut did. | ||
| No matter where you are in this country, if you're working hard and play by the rules, you ought to have a government that stands up for you instead of fights against you. | ||
| That's why we increased the child tax credit in the Working Families Tax Cut. | ||
| That's why we eliminated taxes on overtime and on tips. | ||
| And that's why we had the biggest tax cut for families that this country has ever seen because we believe that you ought to keep more of your hard-earned money. | ||
| And we believe that if you're busting your rear end every single day, the government ought to make it easier for you and not harder for you. | ||
| And that's why we fought for that legislation. | ||
| Judy Vance in Georgia, Battleground State. | ||
| As many of you know, here's the Atlanta Journal Constitution headline about his visit. | ||
| Vance leans into pitchman role for Trump's new tax law in his Georgia visit. | ||
| He also attacked the sitting senator, John Ossoff, who's up for reelection. | ||
| That's why it's a battleground state in the Peachtree State. | ||
| This is from the Washington Times this morning. | ||
| Mr. Trump carried Georgia by slightly more than two percentage points over Vice President Kamala Harris last fall. | ||
| Four years earlier, Democratic Joe Biden won the state by roughly 12,000 votes. | ||
| Listen to the senator, Democratic Senator John Ossoff, who voted against the One Big Beautiful bill. | ||
| This is his criticism of it. | ||
| And the vice president on MSNBC. | ||
| The reason that they're scrambling to redraw maps in Texas ahead of the midterms is because there's a big Democratic wave forming because their agenda is so darn unpopular. | ||
| I mean, you can't go just about anywhere in the country and sell an agenda that is defunding hospitals and nursing homes to cut taxes for the wealthiest people in the country. | ||
| That bill is like 20 points underwater in Georgia. | ||
| And the vice president is coming to do damage control because they realize that even in a purple state like Georgia, the public is opposed to what they're doing. | ||
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I mean, we've lost nine rural hospitals in 15 years in Georgia already. | |
| Just this week, it was reported that Evans Memorial Hospital in Georgia, small rural hospital, 49 beds, faces a $3 plus million dollar hole in their budget now next year. | ||
| And the hospital is saying they might have to cut the ICU. | ||
| This is exactly what we warned would happen when they passed a bill that guts America's health care system, cut taxes for the rich. | ||
| So Vance is being sent on this little errand to come and play defense in Georgia, defending a bill they can't defend, trying to sell the unsellable. | ||
| And let me just say this about JD Vance, because he was supposed to be this avatar of a new GOP that was for working class people in the United States. | ||
| His legacy forever now is casting the decisive vote to throw millions of Americans off health care, throw seniors out of their nursing home beds, all to serve the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country. | ||
| He has zero credibility as a champion for America's working class, and the damage control he's trying to do in Georgia this week is going to fall flat. | ||
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And Georgians have already rejected this policy. | |
| Georgia Senator John Ossoff on MSNBC. | ||
| Now let's get your take on this one big beautiful bill. | ||
| Has your view changed? | ||
| James, in Virginia, Independent. | ||
| James, good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Thank you for cisband listeners. | ||
| I've been a cisfund listener for the past six years, I would say, and the second time caller, the last time I called, was in 2017. | ||
| I'm an independent and I have a small business pretty much on healthcare. | ||
| What I have my views hasn't changed on the since the Big Beautiful bill was passed. | ||
| What I can say is we Americans, sometimes the media misled us into understanding what the negative aspect of this bill was instead of focusing on the positive aspect of it. | ||
| Yes, it's true that most people will lose their Medicaid, but you didn't qualify for the Medicaid in the first place, or they were put in there and there were no checks to know if these people qualified to be on it in the first place. | ||
| During COVID, a lot of people were put on Medicaid because a lot of people were out of job. | ||
| But after COVID, most people went back to job and started earning income, but there were no reviews to really understand why people were still on it when they are working full-time and making sometimes more than $50,000 a year. | ||
| And they're still on Medicaid. | ||
| And I think that wasn't fair to taxpayers because the program is supposed to meet the needs of the most needed people who are in the country, who need it, not just randomly open for anybody that can tap into it. | ||
| So for me, on that part, that was the big take for that I see as a positive on the bill. | ||
| Okay, James, hang on the line because Kaiser Family Foundation puts this analysis together. | ||
| They base it on the Congressional Budget Office, and they say this: that the CBO estimates relative to its estimates of insurance coverage prior to the law being enacted, the law will increase the number of people without health insurance in 2034 by 10 million because of changes to Medicaid, which will be $7.5 million, the ACA marketplace, 2.1 million, and other policies and interactions among different provisions. | ||
| So that makes up about 0.4 million. | ||
| James, how do you respond to that? | ||
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Well, I still see that I am for everyone having health insurance, but is it the program that gives everyone health insurance? | |
| If that is the case, then we need to change the legislature to affect that everyone can get health insurance. | ||
| But if it is based on qualification, for what Medicaid stands right now, it's for the poor who cannot afford health care. | ||
| It's not for everybody. | ||
| So if people were on Medicaid but did not need the qualification to be in there, they shouldn't be in there. | ||
| But if we want to change the laws to make everybody to be on, to have health insurance, I am on board for that. | ||
| But I am not on board for something that it's not, you don't need the qualification. | ||
| Like able-bodied persons that can work and be able to get insurance with their employer, they're not doing that. | ||
| And they still tap into the system that take away from the very poor who need it. | ||
| Yep, understood your point. | ||
| Understood your point, James. | ||
| Mark in Philadelphia, Democratic caller. | ||
| Let's hear from you. | ||
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Yeah, Greta. | |
| Good morning. | ||
| Can you hear me? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| The reason I'm against the Big Beautiful bill is the climate, the climate conditions here. | ||
| You know, the climate, throwing out all the climate legislation that President Biden and the Democratic Party passed. | ||
| I'm an old guy. | ||
| I go back to, you know, President Eisenhower. | ||
| I remember the 1960 election like it was yesterday, Nixon versus JFK. | ||
| I was a teenager then. | ||
| But I've been jogging outdoors for about the last 40-something years. |