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Politics & Power

Politics & Power

By: News4Jax and Graham Media Group
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 The election season is over and News4JAX The Morning Show anchor, Bruce Hamilton, hosts this podcast to give you the pulse of things going on here and across the country in Politics & Power.Produced by News4Jax, in cooperation with Graham Media Group. Political Science Politics & Government
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  • Analyzing the cost of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ & how it aligns with Project 2025

    Analyzing the cost of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ & how it aligns with Project 2025
    Jun 3 2025
    Let’s talk about that Big Beautiful Bill the House passed, which is now in the Senate’s hands. Political analysts say if you look at the bill closely, yes, it delivers on President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda and cuts taxes. But they question at what cost. The answer is that the cost will be to the tune of lost health care for 8.6 million Americans through Medicaid or Obamacare subsidies. It raises a question that people are asking: Didn’t the Republicans wonder if those cuts would make life difficult for people who are aging, unemployed, working poor or disabled?
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    51 mins
  • Did Biden deceive the Democratic Party, or were the party’s eyes closed to reality?

    Did Biden deceive the Democratic Party, or were the party’s eyes closed to reality?
    May 27 2025
    Some Democrats say it was a mistake to allow then-President Joe Biden to remain in the 2024 race for as long as they did. A new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, contains some bombshells and raises some fundamental questions that the Democrats must ask: Did Biden’s team deceive them, or did they deceive themselves? Were their eyes closed to reality? The bottom line is that the book paints a portrait of a president whose faculties, both physical and mental, were “diminished.” And Tapper and Thompson say aides and advisers hid that from the public.
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    32 mins
  • How Pope Leo XIV’s global & domestic influence will be measured, scrutinized as he pledges to unify

    How Pope Leo XIV’s global & domestic influence will be measured, scrutinized as he pledges to unify
    May 21 2025
    Since the United States was founded in 1776, 17 popes have presided over the Catholic Church. Until May 8, 2025, none of the men who held the post in the Vatican had been from the United States. History was made that day when Robert Prevost emerged on the balcony and proclaimed to the thousands of people from around the world who had assembled below in St. Peter’s Square: “La pace sia con tutti voi.” Pope Leo XIV‘s first words were “Peace be with you all.” Prevost‘s election was stunning news because no one thought an American would or could become Pope. Yet, this son of Chicago‘s South Side won the majority vote of the conclave.
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    49 mins
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