From WNYC Studios.

I'm Brian Lerer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Thursday, April 20th.

Now our monthly Call Your Senator segment with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

Do you ask what you want. I'll be asking about

some of the following topics, depending on what we can get in. The senator's new five-point aging

plan, as she calls it, her bill to expand and preserve snap benefits, food stamps. Also, maybe the

recent intelligence leak for the senator's role in the armed services and

intelligence committees, the debt ceiling, or maybe we should call it the full faith and credit

of the United States government cliff that's coming up.

What happens if the Supreme Court allows the abortion pill, Mifapristone to be banned,

and should Senator Dianne Feinstein resign?

Senator Gillibrand has an opinion about that. Senator, always good of you to do this. Welcome

back to WNYC. My pleasure, Brian. Your five-point aging plan. This isn't like eat well,

exercise, and get regular checkups, right?

Not exactly, but it makes all those things possible. So the first thing is ensuring that they have access to affordable and healthy meals. There's about 5 million older adults in the United

States, including 7% of older adults in New York, that

are food insecure.

And so it's a real issue.

And we have great programs in New York that deliver hot meals once a day.

All those programs need to be funded because our seniors, our older Americans need access to nutrition

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