Brian Merr on WNYC, now our monthly call your senator segment.

My questions and yours for New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

If you live anywhere in New York State and have a question for Senator

Gillibrand, our lines are open at 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-9-2, call or text, actually, and a call or text

or two from out-of-state, also okay. 212-433, WNYC.

And we're going to set this up a little differently than we usually do.

We're going to play a clip of Senator Gillibrand,

a 22nd clip from when she joined Corey Booker on the Senate floor,

around 20 after 7 in the morning,

before Booker completed his 25-hour marathon, opposing many of

Trump's policies. She let him take a breather for a few minutes by talking about the doge

cuts to Social Security staff and services. Social Security is our seniors money. It's not the

government's money. So what happens

when you make it hard for a senior to call and make sure their checks on the way or their

check never showed up and they can't find it? For a lot of older Americans, that Social

Security check is the only money they have for that month.

Senator Gillibrand on the Senate floor last week. Senator Gillibrand is with us live. Now,

Senator, always good of you to do this. Welcome back to WNYC.

How are you? I'm okay. Thank you.

Looks like you spoke for about seven minutes to help Senator Booker get through that.

Why did you pick Social Security as your topic?

Well, in New York State, Social Security is still the number one issue for seniors when it comes to knowing they will be able to pay for

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