It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

We'll keep covering day one of the partial government shutdown to begin today.

Political gridlock in Washington, about 750,000 federal workers to be

furloughed, according to an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office. Many government

services are in question. We'll get into some of those. The Democrats are making proposed

health care cuts, the centerpiece of their objections. It's happening today, in case you don't know the context,

because today, October 1st, is the start of the federal government's fiscal year. We have Senator

Andy Kim with us, Democrat from New Jersey. As many of you know, he comes on once a month for a

call your senator segment, my questions and yours, especially if you're a New Jersey

constituent,

though anyone may call right now on the government shutdown primarily today, but with maybe a few

other things too. 212-433 WNYC, 212-433-9692. You can call and you can text. Senator, we always appreciate when you come on with us.

Welcome back to WNYC. Yeah, thanks for having me back on. Before we talk shutdown politics, can you

give your constituents and other listeners a sense of what is actually shut down, what government

services and employees are immediately affected in New Jersey or generally?

Yeah, look, you know, what I'll say is that we're still getting details on how the Trump

administration is trying to operate this, but as you said, about 750,000 federal workers

furlough. We're seeing a bulk of that in the education

department, commerce, labor, state department, ag department. So, you know, we're still getting a

sense of this, you know, at least in New Jersey. You know, we got several military bases.

I'm going to be talking to some of the commanders there later on to get a sense of this, but many of them will continue working.

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