Call Your Senator: Sen Gillibrand
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Listener supported WNYC Studios. |
| 0:07.2 | Ryan Ware on WNYC. |
| 0:21.0 | Now our monthly call your senator segment. |
| 0:23.4 | My questions and yours for New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. |
| 0:27.1 | If you live anywhere in New York State and have a question for Senator Jillibrand, |
| 0:30.7 | our lines are open at 212-433. |
| 0:34.5 | WNYC, 212, 433-962, call or text, actually, and a call or text or two from out of state, also okay. |
| 0:44.5 | 212, 433, WNYC. |
| 0:47.5 | And we're going to set this up a little differently than we usually do. |
| 0:50.5 | We're going to play a clip of Senator Gillibrand, a 22nd clip from when she joined Corey Booker |
| 0:57.1 | on the Senate floor around 20 after 7 in the morning before Booker completed his 25-hour marathon, |
| 1:04.0 | opposing many of Trump's policies. She let him take a breather for a few minutes by talking about |
| 1:08.9 | the doge cuts to Social Security staff and services. |
| 1:14.0 | Social Security is our seniors money. It's not the government's money. It's their money. So what happens when you make it hard for a senior to call and make sure their checks on the way, |
| 1:28.1 | or their check never showed up and they can't find it. |
| 1:31.5 | For a lot of older Americans, that Social Security check is the only money they have for that month. |
| 1:39.6 | Senator Gillibrand on the Senate floor last week. |
| 1:42.7 | Senator Gillibrand is with us live. Now, |
| 1:45.5 | Senator, always good of you to do this. Welcome back to WNYC. |
| 1:51.0 | How are you? I'm okay. Thank you. Looks like you spoke for about seven minutes to help Senator |
| 1:56.8 | Booker get through that. Why did you pick Social Security as your topic? |
| 2:08.4 | Well, in New York State, Social Security is still the number one issue for seniors when it comes to knowing they will be able to pay for medicine or heat or their rent or food. And when |
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