It's the Brian Lear Show on WNYC.

I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom.

Coming up on today's show, we'll hear what happened at the Rent Guidelines Board meeting last night.

Spoiler alert, they did not freeze the rent for rent-regulated apartments.

WNYC and Gothamist reporter David Bran will have the details in just a little while.

Plus, our health and climate story of the week, what we know so far about Governor Hokel's plan to open a new nuclear power

plant in New York State. This announcement comes about four years after the Indian Point

power plant was shut down in Westchester County. We'll talk about the pros and cons of nuclear

power. And we'll get Ruth Marcus's take on the Supreme Court term that just ended.

She was a longtime Washington Post columnist who is now writing for the New Yorker. She'll also weigh in

on where things stand with this tax and spend mega bill that President Trump is urging Congress to pass this week.

And we'll wrap up today's show with a preview of what could

have been a moment of great suspense, the next round of ranked choice voting from last week's

primary election. They will come out at noon today, but instead Assembly member Zoran

Mamdani's big primary night numbers mean, we kind of already know he's the official winner of the

Democratic nomination, but we're still going know he's the official winner of the Democratic

nomination, but we're still going to dig into the numbers and hear what else we should be on

the lookout for. First this morning, even as lawmakers in Washington continue to work through

issues on the president's tax and spending bill here in New York City, our local lawmakers

approved a budget for fiscal year 2026 yesterday.

Negotiations between the city council and the mayor's office continued throughout last week when,

oh yeah, there was a major election that almost everyone involved with hammering out this deal was a part of.

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