It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. So here we are a week and a day after the election, and at least two things have happened. One on the national level and one locally.

Nationally, seven centrist Democrats in the Senate, as you no doubt know by now, decided it was

time to end the government shutdown with the best deal they thought the Democrats would get,

no matter how long they held out. Many other Democrats are furious. We'll cover this in depth later in the show,

as it is continuing to develop this morning with perhaps an answer to the big unknown here,

whether they'll get the Obamacare subsidies vote in the House that the Democrats want.

That's the big national post-election story. Locally, the governor, Mikey Cheryl, era,

and the mayor's Ron Mamdani era are about to take shape. Cheryl came out angry at those fellow

Democrats for ending the shutdown. She called it malpractice. Mayor-elect Mamdani, meanwhile,

is beginning to build his governing team with an overture to the

establishment he ran against with his first deputy mayor appointee and one to his Democratic Socialist

base with his incoming chief of staff. How big a tent can he build? How big a tent does he need

to accomplish his affordability goals? Mamdani also observed Veterans Day yesterday in his own way to make a point, we'll explain.

Also, the outgoing mayor, Eric Adams, remember him, Adams is reportedly planning to make some

lame duck moves to what Newsday calls Mamdani-proof city government.

We'll discuss what kinds of political sabotage, if we can call it that, he might have

in mind.

And listen to this.

Fortune magazine reports that some of the New York City billionaires who spent all

kinds of money and used all kinds of language to try to defeat Mamdani are now reaching out.

For example, the article says, Jamie Diamond, CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase, previously told Fortune,

Mamdani was, quote, more Marxist than socialist, but he added, if he becomes mayor, I will call him and offer my help. So we'll talk about the

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