Sen. Gillibrand Says Dems Are Fighting Trump, But Clickbait Media Won't Cover It

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0	From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Thursday, April 10th.
0:14.4	Now our monthly call, your senator segment, my questions and yours for New York Senator,
0:19.4	Kirsten Gillibrand. And we're going to set this up a little
0:22.1	differently than we usually do. We're going to play a clip of Senator Gillibrand, a 20-second clip from
0:28.4	when she joined Cory Booker on the Senate floor around 20 after seven in the morning before Booker
0:34.7	completed his 25-hour marathon, opposing many of Trump's policies.
0:39.5	She let him take a breather for a few minutes by talking about the doge cuts to Social Security staff and services.
0:47.4	Social security is our seniors' money.
0:51.5	It's not the government's money.
0:53.4	It's their money. So what happens when you make
0:55.7	it hard for a senior to call and make sure their checks on the way or their check never showed up
1:03.0	and they can't find it? For a lot of older Americans, that social security check is the only
1:09.5	money they have for that month.
1:12.9	Senator Gillibrand on the Senate floor last week.
1:16.2	Senator Gillibrand is with us live.
1:18.6	Now, Senator, always good of you to do this.
1:20.2	Welcome back to WNYC.
1:24.3	How are you?
1:25.9	I'm okay.
1:26.6	Thank you.
1:27.2	Looks like you spoke for about seven minutes to help Senator Booker get through that.
1:31.3	Why did you pick Social Security as your topic?
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