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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Hugh Hewitt: A Big Beautiful Bill by the Fourth?
Description: It was on January 5 of this year when President Trump—on my Salem program— said his preference was for “one big, beautiful bill.” And thus he started a snowball rolling down Congressional Hill and that gathered momentum and should be on his desk, perhaps by July 4, certainly not later than Labor Day. Trump willed H.R. 1 into being the way he willed his return to the Oval Office: By speaking clearly and repeatedly about what had to be done. Turns out the commander-in-chief is also the “closer-in-chief.” The president worked closely with Speaker Johnson, Leade...