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00:02  Report by Ines Pohl
01:42  Ines Pohl | DW Washington bureau chief 

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It's only hours since the US Senate passed Donald Trump's Mega Bill, and it's impossible to know the exact details of the 950-page thick wide range piece of legislation. But the headlines are enough to get these protesters in Vienna, Virginia, on the streets:  

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+++ Vox1: It will affect everybody. Literally everybody.
Republicans and Democrats alike. It's going to affect kids the most.
The elderly people who are in education, it's going to affect everyone.
I mean, there's not a soul who it's not going to touch.+++

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++++ Vox2: 
This is the last day of USAID, and we know that children in Africa and other countries will die because they won't get the aid that they need.+++

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++++ Vox3:
I am very concerned about the message that sends about our country's priorities, that we think that taking health care and food support away from the most vulnerable is more important than making everyone pay their fair share of taxes.+++

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+++ Vox4:
These people are living in a society where they don't get fair wages in the first place, where they don't have good childcare, and they're so reliant on this because of the structure of the United States.
So not only are we taking away the last resort, but we're not giving them a chance to stand on their own feet.+++

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+++Vox5:
It's not getting the attention it deserves. And I think a lot of Uh, Americans are not looking at the details of this bill. They get caught up in the politics of it, which we're hoping we can change.+++

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+++ PTC Ines Pohl, DW’s Washington Bureau Chief
It will take time before people feel the negative consequences of the bill.
And the question is, you know, whether it will change the way they vote in the midterms at the end of next year, which will decide whether Donald Trump will keep the majority.+++

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+++ Vox6: I think there's a lot of constituencies, a lot of people who are going to be directly impacted paying, having less services, having less access to health care, uh, less jobs.
I mean, we can go through the whole litany of of changes that have been going on really rapidly, really sort of extra constitutionally.
And so I think there's a lot of people, different constituencies that may have even voted for the current office holders who are going to change their mind and go a different way.+++

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+++ Vox 7: We know that this bill will kick off 17 million Americans from their health coverage.
We know it has the potential to close down 200 Planned Parenthood health centers across the country.
So we know that Americans are going to be angry. They're not going to stand by while their health care is stripped from them, where reproductive health care services are more limited.
And so, you know, I feel confident that they're going to hold their leaders accountable for these votes.++