It's the Brian Larishout on WNYC. Good morning, everyone coming up later this hour, our usual Wednesday

visit from our political reporter Elizabeth Kim on the New York City mayoral race. Among our topics

today, the changing face of the crime and public safety issue in this campaign with Andrew Cuomo

proposing new ways to retain police officers, Eric Adams having some good crime stats to boast about,

and Zeran Mamdani getting the endorsement of a police

officers association, will play clips of each. Also, Democrats who aren't endorsing their party's

nominee, but not endorsing anyone else either, what it means for the race and the party nationally,

that's coming up. But first, Congress and other national politics. Members of the House

of Representatives are in summer recess, an extended recess, as you'll recall, because Speaker Mike

Johnson is helping President Trump avoid Jeffrey Epstein-related hearings, at least for now,

but summer recess means town hall meetings, which have been fraught this year

for Republicans, especially after the one big Medicaid-cutting budget and policy bill.

For example, on Monday, Congressman Mike Flood of Nebraska's First District faced a raucous

crowd of more than 700 constituents at a town hall hosted by

Nebraska Public Media in the state's capital. In this one-minute clip, Flood speaks, audience members react.

If we didn't pass the Big Beautiful Bill, it would have been a $1,600 tax increase to every

Nebraska family.

That is a true middle class tax cut.

Next slide please. These are the other important parts to the one big beautiful bill.

Tax-o-kish! Tax-all-rich! Tax-all-rich!

Tax-all-rich!

No taxes on overtime! Taxes on rich.

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