2448 - Is Trump Crashing The Economy?; NYC Organizes For Rent Freeze w/ Hal Singer, Cea Weaver

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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It's an EmMajority Report Thursday! She speaks with Hal Singer, economics professor at the University of Utah, to discuss Trump's recent tariff threats. Then, she speaks with Cea Weaver, tenant organizer with Housing Justice For All and director of the New York State Tenant Bloc, to discuss the rent freeze campaign the organizations are working on.

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0:00.0	You are listening to a free version of The Majority Report.
0:04.4	Support this show at join the Majority Report.com and get an extra hour of content daily.
0:12.3	The Majority Report with Sam Cedar.
0:17.5	It is Thursday.
0:20.6	March 6th, 2025. My name is Emma Vigland and for Sam Cedar, and this is the five-time award-winning majority report.
0:28.6	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.
0:39.2	On the program today, Hal Singer will be back with us,
0:42.3	economics professor at University of Utah, to talk about Trump's effect on our economy.
0:49.2	It's not good so far, folks.
0:51.8	And later in the show, C. Weaver of Housing Justice for All joins us to talk about
0:56.9	advocating for a rent freeze here in New York City.
1:01.6	Also on the program, Trump's mass firing of federal workers has led to the bleakest job numbers
1:09.6	in the month of February since 2009, mid-recession.
1:15.8	It's an 103% increase from the previous month.
1:21.2	And the dude's not done.
1:23.5	Reports say that he is expected to cut 80,000 more jobs from the VA, which targeting the
1:33.1	ones Biden, I think, added to help veterans deal with diseases that they got from serving
1:43.1	our country.
1:45.5	A workers' board temporarily reinstates
1:48.5	6,000 probationary workers at the Agriculture Department.
1:53.2	But reporting says Trump is considering
1:55.5	to take a separate action on USAID,
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