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Happy Friday.

Now we'll begin a series in which we'll invite the various county executives in our area to come on and say how they think the people in their counties are being affected by the Trump revolution.

Some county execs in our area are Democrats.

Some are Republicans.

We'll see how they assess the impacts on

their residents of Trump policy so far in counties that voted against Trump and counties that

voted for him, like Nassau and Suffolk and Rockland and Staten Island, also known as Richmond

County, in case you didn't know. And of course, we'll invite each guest's constituents to call in

as we do. The five boroughs in the city are counties. So the series will include the borough

presidents. And we begin now with the Bronx borough president, Vanessa Gibson. You might call her

the president of the Bronx. County Executive Gibson, thanks for coming on. Welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you, Brian. Thank you for having me today. And we'll get to some of your own initiatives

as we go. I know you gave a state of the borough address recently. But first, where would

you start to describe the impact of the Trump administration on people in the Bronx so far. I know it's a general

question, but who's really feeling it one way or another so far if it's not too early to ask?

I think the impact on a lot of the Trump administration's executive orders and changes in

Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, U.S. Department of Education is going to be felt the hardest in communities across the Bronx where you have working class families. You have families with children in college, recipients of grants and other opportunities through the federal government. Many of our older adults that are in those safety net programs like Medicaid and Medicare reliant on insulin

and medicine. We're seeing pharmacies close down with a lot of changes and regulations.

I think, again, a borough like the Bronx that has historically struggled when it comes to

health equity and better health outcomes are always the first when it comes to these types of

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