House Vote: A Big Win for Trump and Speaker Johnson
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🗓️ 28 February 2025
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Townhall Review – March 1, 2025
🔹 House GOP’s Budget Win: Trump Tax Cuts Locked In – The House GOP narrowly passes a budget blueprint (217-216), securing Trump’s tax cuts. Dan Proft talks with economist Stephen Moore about the size of this win, while Hugh Hewitt discusses with Rep. Juan Ciscomani (AZ) and new Senator Dave McCormick (PA) why it’s a critical first step.
🔹 Israel Mourns the Bibas Family – Israel holds a memorial for Shiri Bibas and her sons, Ariel and Kfir, killed by Hamas. Yael Eckstein (International Fellowship of Christians and Jews) joins Mike Gallagher to reflect on the ongoing conflict.
🔹 FBI Shakeup: Change Agents Take Charge – Kash Patel and Dan Bongino step into FBI leadership roles, signaling big shifts. Charlie Kirk and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (FL) discuss resistance from the old guard.
🔹 Trump’s Unified White House – Tevi Troy (Washington Examiner) tells Hugh Hewitt why Trump’s second term shows less infighting and more results, spotlighting the communications strategy speaking directly to Americans.
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| 0:00.0 | This weekend, the town hall review with Hughitt. |
| 0:07.7 | The House GOP by the narrowest of margin passes the budget blueprint, including the Trump tax cuts. |
| 0:13.9 | We're from Stephen Moore. |
| 0:15.2 | Every single Democrat in the entire U.S. House of Representatives, every single one of them voted to raise taxes |
| 0:23.3 | by $4.5 trillion over the next 10 years. This would be, if the Democrats had their way, |
| 0:29.6 | we would have the biggest tax increase in the history of the United States. |
| 0:33.7 | Arizona Representative Juan Cishamani. The resolution was the blueprint of it. |
| 0:38.1 | That's what got us in the field for the game. |
| 0:40.7 | Now we got four quarters to go. |
| 0:42.2 | So the fight starts now. |
| 0:43.5 | And Pennsylvania's new senator, Dave McCormick. |
| 0:46.0 | The key question is whether we make the tax cuts permanent. |
| 0:49.8 | Plus, Israel holds a memorial for the Bibas family, slain at the hands of Hamas. |
| 0:54.7 | Siri, be a vacast, you should be on you. Israel holds a memorial for the Bibas family, slain at the hands of Hamas. Guyi Bavakashteen of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. |
| 1:00.2 | The same group that's holding Israel hostage is holding those innocent Palestinian children hostage. |
| 1:04.9 | Correct. |
| 1:05.0 | It goes back to Hamas. |
| 1:06.9 | And Mike Gallagher. |
| 1:08.2 | How do you negotiate with such evil? |
| 1:11.8 | I wish I knew. |
| 1:13.3 | We've got all this and more. |
| 1:14.6 | I'm Hugh Hewitt. |
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