New York State Lawmakers Get to Work
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
New York State lawmakers are back in Albany for the new legislative session -- with palpable tension among Democrats. Jon Campbell, Albany reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, previews the priorities of Gov. Hochul and the legislature, including on housing, education, migrants and more, plus what bills got vetoed from the last session.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. I love Paul Krugman on today's show, |
| 0:17.0 | the New York Times columnist and Economics Wank. |
| 0:20.0 | It's going to relate mostly to this eye-popping mind-numbing number that's been in the |
| 0:26.1 | news the last couple of days since New Year's. |
| 0:28.8 | The U.S. total accumulated debt has hit $34 trillion. |
| 0:35.6 | But that number is so big, |
| 0:37.2 | it's like meaningless to us, right? |
| 0:39.3 | So what is $34 trillion of federal debt mean? |
| 0:42.8 | Is it something to be worried about? |
| 0:44.6 | Is it fine in the context of how big the overall economy is? |
| 0:49.0 | Paul Krugman is going to come on with his take |
| 0:52.4 | on the $34 trillion |
| 0:54.6 | dollar debt number that you've been hearing in the news. |
| 0:58.2 | We also have the mayor of Patterson, |
| 1:00.1 | Andre Saya coming on later in the show. |
| 1:02.6 | Patterson, New Jersey, a lot going on there right now |
| 1:06.2 | with climate change, with its Palestinian population, |
| 1:09.8 | where the police takeover by the state of New Jersey. A lot of news coming out of Little |
| 1:15.6 | Patterson, 150,000 people, about 15 miles west of the city. For those of you who measure things from distance by distance from |
| 1:25.8 | the George Washington Bridge and that'll be interesting I think to talk to |
| 1:30.6 | Mayor Seo later in the show and we'll close later on with a call in for people who |
| 1:37.6 | have or have considered and rejected the idea of hyphenating your names when you get married. So all of that is coming up, but we start |
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