Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. I want to talk with you about one of the things that your president has done recently

that is extraordinarily disturbing to me. And I will just say it. This is a part of my preparation.

I need to think about this in terms of full disclosure with all of you. I have literally been in a

situation where as a result of circumstances outside of my control, I was homeless. And as a

result of being homeless,

and it wasn't an extensive period of time, but it was at a very formative time of my life.

And by that, I mean like elementary school, late elementary going into middle school.

And dealing with a host of financial challenges that my family was experiencing. There were

three kids. We had yes,

two parents, but my parents were in the process of divorcing. And even prior to that, we had

experienced some real extreme, or for me, it was extreme, some real extreme situations that

demonstrated to me as the oldest daughter just how financially precarious our situation was.

One of those situations included living in a homeless shelter for a time.

And that had a very significant impact on my life because, quite frankly, if ever you have been in a situation where you have been forced to deal with housing insecurity, you might be very much aware of the fact

that it is extraordinarily unsettling

to not know for certain where you are going to be the next day.

It is extraordinarily unsettling and spirit disturbing, if you will,

to be in a constant state of concern or worry

about where your next source of anything

was going to come from, be it food or shelter. And I can honestly say that one of the reasons

throughout the entirety of my childhood, or at least the entirety of my childhood stemming

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