Brian Ler on WNYC.

Now are a monthly call-your-senitor segment, my questions and yours for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

New Yorkers, call your Senator if you have a question or you can ask

for help with a government benefit or a bureaucratic hurdle. We get calls for her like that sometimes

or with any micro-lobying you want to do in the short time you'll have on the air. 212-433, WNMIC. People not in

New York may also call 212-433-9-692, call or text.

My questions today will be mostly on the new risk that much of the government will shut

down tomorrow night because President Trump and Elon Musk rejected a bipartisan spending deal.

Senator Gillibrand's request to President Biden that he declared the Equal Rights Amendment

ratified.

Her take on the threat level from any of the drones that people are seeing, I think she has

a new letter to officials about that this week, her take on some of the nominees. And as a member of the

Armed Services Committee, her take on the new defense spending bill, which Congress did pass

this week, even though many Democrats are unhappy, that it includes a ban on covering gender-related

health care for children of service members.

Anyway, Senator Gillibrand, always good to have you.

Do these call your senator segments.

We really appreciate it.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Thanks so much.

I'm happy to be on the show.

And again, listeners, your questions, requests for help with

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