What's Going On with Trump's Budget Bill?; City Politics: Debate Questions; Quiz: City Critters; 100 Years: Best Sellers; Summer Culture: Summer Movies

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 21, 2025
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Coming up on today's show:

  • In the wake of Trump's attempts to get the House's new budget bill to pass, Marianna Sotomayor, congressional reporter for The Washington Post where she covers lawmakers and debates on Capitol Hill, offers commentary on the bill's status.
  • Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, talks about the latest news from the campaign trail, as well as the questions listeners would like Brian to ask at the upcoming mayoral primary debate.
  • Listeners try their hand at a quiz about the critters that live in the city.
  • As our centennial series continues, Tina Jordan,  deputy editor of The New York Times Book Review, and a co-editor of The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History (Clarkson Potter, 2021), looks at the history of best-selling books and what that says out the past century of American culture.
  • Dana Stevens, film critic at Slate.com and a co-host of the Slate "Culture Gabfest" podcast and the author of Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century (Atria Books, 2022), previews the summer movie season, including the blockbusters everyone will be talking about, and other films she recommends you check out.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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