This is Brian Lair's Daily Politics Podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Thursday, April 3rd.

I'm Amina Serna, a producer for the Brian Lair Show, filling in for Brian today.

Good morning, everyone.

First, did you hear the news that Mayor Eric Adams announced he will be running for re-election as an

independent? This means he will not appear on the ballot in the June primary election, which is for

candidates in parties only. So the winner of that primary will face Adams for the general

election in November. It's a definite shake-up to the race and came after the mayor found out

yesterday that a judge dropped the corruption charges against him. Our lead Eric Adams reporter,

Elizabeth Kim, has been telling us for weeks that the mayor has been barely campaigning

for the primary election. So I think if you're a close listener to this show, you are probably not

that surprised. He made this decision. We will get much more into this and let you share your thoughts

on tomorrow's show when WMIC's Bridget Bergen will be here sitting in as guest host.

But coming up on today's show, experts are anticipating deep cuts to federal food assistance programs like SNAP or food stamps by Republican-led Congress in this year's budget negotiations.

We'll take a look at how those cuts will affect 1.8 million New Yorkers, including more than

half a million children. Then we'll hear a new series from NPR's Embedded podcast on how one

journalist tried to break through to his conspiracy-believing dad by wagering a bet. And we'll end the show

today with a story from Vox about why being bored might not

be such a bad thing, but only if you do it right. But first, this week, the Democratic Party

made some big gains, maybe even their biggest so far in the Trump 2.0 era. In Wisconsin,

a liberal judge won a fiercely contested state Supreme

Court race. That's in spite of Elon Musk himself pouring millions of dollars into the race

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