Call Your Senator: Sen. Andy Kim on Social Security, Town Halls and More
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:16.8 | Well, another weekend, another weekend of nonstop news. |
| 0:20.1 | I hope you weren't paying as much attention as I was. |
| 0:23.0 | Two of the things that happened since Friday's show that we'll talk about today are Columbia University announcing what are being seen as concessions to Trump administration demands regarding anti-Semitism. |
| 0:35.1 | In order to get back, $400 million in federal funding. |
| 0:38.6 | Trump had suspended, mostly NIH grants. |
| 0:41.6 | We'll talk about Columbia explicitly coming up. |
| 0:44.8 | Another thing is yet another statement from a Trump official raising doubt about their commitment |
| 0:50.9 | to Social Security. |
| 0:52.4 | You know Elon Musk called it a Ponzi scheme. Well, now Commerce |
| 0:56.1 | Secretary Howard Lutnik said this on Friday. Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks |
| 1:03.4 | this month. My mother-in-law, who's 94, she wouldn't call and complain. |
| 1:11.4 | She just wouldn't. |
| 1:12.6 | She thinks something got messed up, and she'll get it next month. |
| 1:15.4 | A fraudster always makes the loudest noise screaming and yelling and complaining. |
| 1:25.0 | Let Nick on the All In podcast. |
| 1:28.2 | That comment is drawing a lot of criticism over his suggestion that ordinary Social |
| 1:32.8 | security recipients wouldn't miss a check if it didn't come. |
| 1:36.8 | We'll talk about that and much more in our first segment today. |
| 1:40.9 | It's our latest call your senator segment. |
| 1:43.0 | We do these monthly with New Jersey |
| 1:44.6 | Senator Andy Kim and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand once a month. Today it's my questions |
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