If you think talking about finances in general is hard, try talking to your parents about money.

What you don't want to do is like, do you have any money, what's going on?

You don't want to come at them in a more adversarial way.

Or, as I said, you don't want to come out like you're now the parent.

What to do about the ups and downs of your 401k?

If you or someone you care about plans to retire soon, that's on the next explain it to me.

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Welcome to Raging Moderates. I'm Jessica Tarlow, and today I'm thrilled to be joined by Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Mastow.

She's the honorary chair of the Mod Squad. That's a group of moderate senators who are all about modernizing, how they connect with voters, standing up to political extremes, and actually getting things done for the American people.

She's been really outspoken lately about the Doge-led cuts hitting critical programs in Nevada,

like funding for immunizations and mental health services.

She also helped lead a group of senators who wrote to Health Secretary RFK Jr.

Raising alarms about cuts to Head Start programs.

And she's one of the key voices pushing to re-center the Democratic Party

around common sense and real human connection, near and dear to mine and Scott's heart. Welcome to the

program, Senator. Oh, Jessica, it's great to join you. Okay, now, I don't want to offend you because

this is your show. Okay. Let me just say one thing. It's Nevada. Oh, my God. I'm so sorry. If I didn't correct you and they were listening to this, they would turn it when I got home. I would never be able to go back.

Your next town hall would be a health escape because you didn't tell me. Okay, so Nevada. Nevada, that's it. Nevada. Okay. I'm going to try really hard.

Okay. I'm going to try really hard. I'm going to struggle. Okay. I'm going to try really hard, but this New Yorker is probably going to struggle. Okay. I wanted to start with kind of big picture. This was the marked 100 days of the Trump 2.0 presidency this week. What are your top line thoughts on how it's been going and also how it's been

affecting people in your state? Well, I can tell you, it's the economy. It's just, it absolutely is

about the economy for people in Nevada. I was home just recently. I'm back in D.C. working now,

but I was home for two weeks. I was in the northern part of the state, the center of the

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