It's Monday, July 7th.
I'm Todd Zwilich, in for Jane Koston, and this is What A Day,
the show that recognizes that Black Sabbath is dead, but Ozzy Osbourne is alive.
Now, Ozzy was never supposed to outlive anyone, really.
So on a weekend when America celebrated shaking off the UK,
it's good to note that one British rocker is looking great and lived to see his old band officially retire.
On today's show,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes to the White House
while Hamas considers yet another ceasefire deal with negotiators in Qatar.
Emergency responders and politics react to the tragic loss of life from flooding in Texas.
But let's start with President Donald Trump's latest effort to make health and safety worse and reward the rich while doing it.
Donald Trump signed his big budget bill into law on July 4th.
complete with a flyover from a stealth bomber.
And if you rely on Medicaid or SNAP nutrition benefits or the Affordable Care Act to pay for health coverage,
that imagery is, well, right on target.
Over the next decade,
17 million Americans are expected to either lose their health coverage or the federal subsidies that help pay for them.
And yet,
while polling shows that Donald Trump's big billionaire benefiting bill is wildly unpopular,
It also shows that most people don't know a thing about it.