Overview

• On Monday’s Daily Show, Stewart denounced the newly enacted law as “general Washington bullshittery” and “the most f---ed up performance review our country could ever deliver.”
• The reconciliation package extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and increases defense and border wall funding while imposing roughly $930 billion in cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, student loans and clean energy programs.
• Drawing on his WWE background, Stewart mocked media coverage as scripted theatrics designed to feign surprise at the bill’s smooth passage.
• In an interview clip, former 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft called Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump a “shakedown” and “a tribute to the king,” highlighting corporate influence on policymaking.
• Stewart blasted the legislation’s “gospel of austerity” for blaming low-income Americans for deficits and urged lawmakers to repair a system that rewards the wealthy while stripping support from working people.