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So we've talked about democracy and authoritarianism at 100 days.

Now we turn to our Health and Climate Tuesdays section.

As regular listeners to the show may know, we're covering health and climate stories on the show every Tuesday

and have committed to do that at least for the first hundred days of the Trump

administration. And that's been so these vital stories don't get lost in the mix of other actions

coming out of the administration that tend to make more headlines. Our tech today will be the

chainsaw they've taken to public health budgets as it might affect people locally.

For example, last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rescinded hundreds

of millions of dollars for public health work across New York City and New York State.

In the city per se, the health department was stripped of at least $100 million for infectious disease prevention funds.

So joining us now to discuss how the city has been hit by the Trump administration

and what this all means for responding to disease outbreaks, vaccine outreach, and more starting on day 101,

is Dr. Michelle Morris, interim commissioner of the New York

City Health Department and an internal medicine and public health physician.

Dr. Morris, welcome to WNYC, and we love to have health commissioners on this show because that's

one of our things.

So we've had a lot of your predecessors

and belated congratulations on becoming New York City Health Commissioner. Thank you so much, Brian.

It's an honor to be on with you. I listen to your show all the time. Oh, thank you. And I see

the cuts primarily affect two types of grants that the New York City Health Department received

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