Brian Laird on WNYC.

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

Now we turn to our Health and Climate Tuesday 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 100 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Services rescinded hundreds of millions of dollars for public health work across New York City and New York State.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, you know, 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 from the Centers for Disease Control, something called the ELC program,

and COVID-19 supplemental funding. So let's take one at a time. What is the ELC program?

Absolutely. And thank you again so much for bringing attention to this concern. I want to start by

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