from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Thursday,

December 19th. Now are a monthly call-your-senitor segment, my questions and yours for

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. My questions today will be mostly on the

new risk that much of the government will shut down tomorrow night because President

Trump and Elon Musk rejected a bipartisan spending deal. Senator Gillibrand's request to President

Biden that he declared the Equal Rights Amendment ratified, her take on the threat level

from any of the drones that people are seeing. I think she has a new letter to officials

about that this week, her take on some of the nominees. And as a member of the Armed Services

Committee, her take on the new defense spending bill, which Congress did pass this week,

even though many Democrats are unhappy that it includes a ban on covering gender-related

health care for children of service members. Anyway, Senator Gillibrand, always good to

have you do these call your senator segments.

We really appreciate it.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Thanks so much.

I'm happy to be on the show.

Let's start with the ERA, the Equal Rights Amendment.

What are you asking President Biden to do?

And with what legal rationale?

So we are asking President Biden to stand up for what he believes in, which is equality

for all women. And he has one thing he could do to push this forward, which is to call on the

archivist to sign and publish it. Because interestingly, all the things that Article 5 of the

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