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40:32Now PlayingSenate Republicans' budget reconciliation proposal, $1 billion White House security and ballroom appropriation, supply-side economics and the Reagan-era tax-cut legacy, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, rural hospital closures and ACA enrollment losses, SNAP cuts and food assistance enrollment declines, ICE and Customs and Border Protection funding through 2029, the 1973 War Powers Act and the Iran deadline, Operation Epic Fury and Project Freedom, the Strait of Hormuz blockade, and Marco Rubio's cease-fire framing.
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