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The Brian Lehrer Show

The State of the Republicans' 'Big, Beautiful' Budget Bill

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Bogage, Congressional economics correspondent at The Washington Post, and Joseph Rosenberg, senior fellow at the Urban Institute's Tax Policy Center, analyze the new budget plan.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

0:13.8

Good morning, everyone.

0:15.4

Coming up later in the show, we're going to talk about your student loans, because even

0:19.4

before Trump and the Republican Congress got

0:21.6

elected with their hostility to President Biden's student loan forgiveness program, the programs

0:26.8

for many Americans with student loans were a mess in many ways. And we're going to have the cut,

0:32.0

you know the cut from New York Magazine. We're going to have their financial advice columnist

0:36.1

Charlotte Cowles, who's going to answer your student loan questions. She're going to have their financial advice columnist, Charlotte Cowles, who's going to

0:38.3

answer your student loan questions. She's got a great column that answers a couple of the big ones,

0:44.3

a number of the big ones, and we'll take yours later in the program. We'll also talk to our lead

0:49.6

Eric Adams reporter, Elizabeth Kim, today, as we usually do on Wednesdays after the mayor's Tuesday news conferences.

0:56.3

This week, it was on Monday, but we're still going to break it down today.

0:59.7

Liz asked him a great question about whether he's going to push for fast-tracking work permits for migrants with Trump in the White House and the suspicion that he's under

1:13.5

Trump's thumb, like he asked for those fast-track work permits under Biden. Remember he did that?

1:19.5

So we're going to see how the mayor answered that question from Liz. She's also on this

1:24.0

Andrew Cuomo watch because people, including Richie Torres, Congressman Richie Torres from

1:30.0

the Bronx, have endorsed Cuomo for mayor, even though he's not running as of now.

1:37.4

So that's all coming up today. We're also going to have a call in at the end of the show

1:41.5

on how much success in your life has been motivated by

1:46.1

proving your nemesis wrong, who has a story like that. Apparently Taylor Swift has a story

1:51.9

like that. Michael Jordan has a story like that. We know Kendrick Lamar has a story like that.

1:56.8

So we'll see if you think any of the success in your life has been motivated by proving your nemesis wrong.

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