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Amanpour and Company

Lawrence Summers: Big Beautiful Bill is “a Shocking Thing In Its Brutality”

Season 2025 Episode 7272 | 17m 57s

11.8 million Americans are at risk of losing their health coverage through Pres. Trump's new domestic policy law, and while he has said that "it's not going to cause death," former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers argues that the law pushes aside "simple matters of decency." Summers details his criticisms in his recent NYT op-ed "This Law Made Me Ashamed of my Country." He joins Walter to discuss.

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