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🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | Listener supported WNYC Studios. |
0:07.2 | It's the Brian Lear Show on WNYC. I'm Amina Serna, a producer for the Brian Lair Show on WNYC. |
0:21.9 | I'm Amina Serna, a producer for the Brian Lair Show, filling in for Brian today. |
0:26.5 | Good morning, everyone. |
0:28.4 | Coming up on today's show, it's a health and climate double header. |
0:32.3 | First, we'll talk to Julie Rovner from KFF Health News. |
0:36.2 | She's been following Health Secretary RFK Jr.'s so-called |
0:39.2 | Make America Healthy Again Tour. He says his goal is to fight chronic disease and promote a |
0:44.9 | healthy diet, but many health experts see a contradiction there, since the health department has |
0:49.9 | been cutting thousands of jobs where employees were working on chronic diseases. |
0:55.0 | Plus, for the climate portion of our Health and Climate Tuesday series, we'll hear about how |
1:00.0 | the Trump administration has cut $300 million in FEMA funding for climate resiliency programs |
1:06.0 | here in the city. And remember the brand new climate change superfund act, advocates called it the make |
1:13.9 | polluters pay bill, Governor Hockel just signed it into law last year. The Trump administration has |
1:19.8 | issued an executive order targeting it. And we'll wrap today's show with travel advice for |
1:25.7 | green card and other visa holders who might be worried |
1:28.4 | about interactions or even arrests at the border. My guest is the legal advisor to CUNY's free |
1:34.7 | immigration law service program. But first, meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, |
1:42.0 | could be split into two or more yesterday at a court in |
1:47.8 | DC the US Federal Trade Commission kicked off its antitrust trial targeting |
1:52.5 | meta's years-old purchases of the social media app Instagram and the messaging |
1:57.3 | app WhatsApp the FTC is accusing META of creating a monopoly |
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