RFK's Moves So Far; EPA Head Lee Zeldin's Moves So Far; NYC Deals With Egg-flation; The Gates' & Other Public Art Favorites

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 25, 2025

Today on the show:

Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent, KFF Health News and host of the What the Health? podcast, and Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today wellness reporter, discuss moves made by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., including a recent vow to investigate the childhood vaccine schedule and SSRIs.
Lisa Friedman, reporter covering climate policy and politics at The New York Times, discusses moves made by the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Lee Zeldin, including the administration's attempts to claw back President Biden's funding for "green energy" infrastructure and more.
The price of a dozen eggs is surging throughout the New York area. Dionne Searcey, New York Times reporter, reports on how bird flu is causing the sticker shock on eggs, how different types of businesses are dealing with the cost and how New Yorkers are finding deals. Plus listeners share their tips on where to find affordable eggs and whether the prices are causing them to change up how eggs fit into their diets.
Listeners share their memories of Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s “The Gates”, which transformed part of Central Park with orange banners twenty years ago this month, plus other art projects that changed their view of public spaces.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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