from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday,

March 26th. New Jersey Congresswoman Mikey Cheryl is here for kind of a double duty segment.

As a Navy veteran and member of the House Armed Services Committee

would get her take on the leaked war plans that accidentally got sent to a journalist

and the larger questions they suggest around Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth in particular

and others in the Trump administration.

Also on threats to Social security, the Congresswoman

sees coming from Trump and Elon Musk and the Republican Congress, Cheryl supported the bill

that recently got passed that restores social security benefits to some retired federal workers,

including what she says is 23,000 in New Jersey.

Congresswoman, always good of you to come on.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Well, thank you for having me.

Let's start on the news with your member of Congress hat on.

Is that leak a big deal?

I was listening to a conservative talk station yesterday,

and the host was saying, like, yeah, they obviously messed messed up but it was an honest mistake they acknowledge it no harm is done to the mission against the huthies this clearly

won't happen again so let's not make more of it than it is how close is that to your own view

it couldn't really be further apart from my own view if they tried.

There are so many problems with what's going on right now that I don't even know where

to begin.

If it didn't mean that we would take out the entire national security apparatus of the United

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