It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

You know, tonight is the first debate night for the mayoral candidates in the Democratic primary in New York City.

It's at 7 o'clock tonight on Channel 4. We're doing our WNYC, New York 1, the city debate that I'll be one

of the questioners in next week, but we're definitely going to pay attention to the Channel 4 debate

tonight to help inform what we do next week.

And so just letting you know about that as kind of an important day in New York City

democracy today.

We're going to preview that debate and talk about the state of the race later this hour with

our political reporter Liz Kim.

That's coming up.

In Washington, as the Trump legislation, he calls the

big, beautiful bill, is being debated in the Senate now. Some strange bedfellows are emerging

to oppose parts of it. And there's more of a spotlight being put on some things with potential

implications for democracy and for people's jobs relating to artificial

intelligence, for example, that are not really budget items and that are going to be debated,

I think, more than they have been and need to be debated more than they have been.

Most of the focus, like we mentioned yesterday, has been on Medicaid, and that's important, but it's not the only

thing we need to talk about. Maybe you heard that Elon Musk now calls the whole bill an

abomination. Well, House Minority Leader and Brooklyn Democrat Hakeem Jeffries agrees.

Breaking news, Elon Musk and I agree with each other.

The GOP tax scam is a disgusting abomination.

Strange bedfellows, Hakeem Jeffries and Elon Musk, right?

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