President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talk with reporters after a House Republican Conference meeting on the budget reconciliation bill in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, M

The Republicans' Budget Bill & NYC; When Federal Research Funding Goes Away; Sen. Gillibrand; Quiz: Name That Tune; Summer Culture Calendar: New Books

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 22, 2025
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On today's show: 

  • Greg David, contributor covering fiscal and economic issues for THE CITY and director of the business and economics reporting program and Ravitch Fiscal Reporting Program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, offers his analysis of how the House budget bill that Republicans passed early this morning may affect NYC - in both good and bad ways.
  • Latif Nasser, co-host of Radiolab from WNYC, tells the story of the huge impacts one small discovery made, brought to us by federally-funded scientific research -- and what we might lose as so much of the funding has been cut by DOGE.
  • U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) talks about her work in Washington and more.
  • Listeners listen to a short clip of music that was, at one time, at the top of the Billboard charts, and try to "name that tune."
  • Catch up with the summer cultural calendar with this pledge-drive miniseries. Today, Jordan Lauf, producer for All Of It and its book club, Get Lit with All Of It, reviews some of the books coming out this summer.

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