Monday Morning Politics: Week Four of the Trump Administration Begins
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Listener supported, WNYC Studios. |
| 0:07.2 | It's the Brian Layer Show on WNYC. I'm Amina Surnah, a producer for the Brian Lair Show on WNYC. I'm Amina Serna, a producer for the Brian Lair Show, filling in for Brian today. |
| 0:27.5 | Congestion pricing has been a reality for just over a month now. The tolling program faced plenty of opposition as it went into effect. |
| 0:35.4 | But in a new poll shows it might be winning some converts. We'll talk |
| 0:38.9 | about that as President Trump is still talking about, quote, killing the program. Plus, later in the show, |
| 0:45.1 | our centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things, looks at the history of one family specifically. |
| 0:51.8 | The Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Levering Lewis's family history. |
| 0:57.1 | It's his story, but as you'll hear, it's really many people's stories as he traces the |
| 1:02.9 | complexities of race, power, and identity in America. And have you heard, New York City is getting |
| 1:09.5 | a new area code. We'll wrap up today's show by |
| 1:13.1 | having you call in to rep your area codes. People apparently have a lot of strong feelings about this. |
| 1:20.6 | But first, in the span of one week, the Trump administration, under the influence of billionaire Elon Musk, |
| 1:33.5 | has targeted several federal agencies and millions of federal employees in moves that might not hold water legally. |
| 1:41.3 | Since Friday, President Trump has said he would impose a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports starting today. That tariff includes tariffs towards Mexico and China, the United States |
| 1:46.5 | largest trading partners. And the agency that protects Americans from financial abuse is in Elon Musk's |
| 1:53.2 | Doge crosshairs. He and newly confirmed director of both the Office of Management and Budget |
| 1:58.7 | and the acting director of the Consumer Financial |
| 2:01.3 | Protection Bureau, Russell Vote, are moving to shut down the agency. |
| 2:06.1 | Unions and other groups are filing lawsuits to try to stop some of what Doge and President |
| 2:11.1 | Trump are doing, and Democrats are trying to use what little leverage they have to block them. |
| 2:16.3 | But Republican members of Congress |
| 2:18.0 | don't seem to have much of an appetite to push back on any of President Trump's moves. |
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