All right, joining me today on IHIP News is Brad Lander, who has spent years fighting for

working families as an affordable housing advocate, city council member, and New York City

comptroller.

You saw him put his body on the line to protect immigrant neighbors when ICE agents

arrested him at 26 Federal Plaza and cross-endors Zoron to defeat Andrew Cuomo, which back-to-back

loser, Cuomo is. Now he's running to represent New York in its 10th Congress district. How lucky would we be to have Brad Lander in the U.S. House of Representatives? Welcome. Good morning. Great to be here in your New York studio. I know. I know. I'm a new New Yorker. I'm starting to feel New Yorker-ish. I've been here six months now. Yeah. I, you know, raised my kids here. You know, I came in my early 20s. I raised my kids here. They were born here. They still don't consider me, you know, real New York. Oh, they don't. Really. I know. It's going to be, it's a big curve. Okay. I just want to start off with rapid fire questions because I think sometimes politicians give long answer.

So these are yes or no questions.

Rejecting corporate PAC money, yes or no?

Yes.

Abolish ICE, yes or no?

Yes.

Tax the rich, yes or no.

Yes.

Okay.

As a parent in New York, if a parent is scared that their trans kid, kids health care will be taken away, one or two sentences as to what you would say to that family right now?

Unfortunately, right now they have real reason to be scared because NYU Langone and Mount Sinai that provided gender affirming care for trans kids, puberty blockers,

have both stopped providing that health care in response to Trump threats.

People are working hard to sue.

That's a violation of New York City's state and, but the city and the state's human rights law.

And there are some other organizations that

provide it. We're fighting like hell to get it back. Yeah, one thing I loved during Zoran's campaign

because I come from Oklahoma City where I have friends that are raising a trans daughter and they

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