4/29 New Fed Chair; Building Political solidarity w/ Liz Pancotti, Yuh-Line Niou (M)

About this episode

The episode discusses the potential nomination of Kevin Warsh as Fed chair, political campaigns, and media critiques surrounding current events.

FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/K2Z4UURVLLo It's Hump Day on The Majority Report On today's program: Marco Rubio goes on Fox News to justify the war with Iran. Pete Hegseth defends it while testifying before Congress on the budget. It appears that the administration has spent more time figuring out how to sell the war than how to execute it. Liz Pancotti, managing director of policy & advocacy at the Groundwork Collaborative, joins the program to discuss Kevin Warsh 's likely nomination as Fed chair and Jerome Powell 's last FOMC meeting. Yuh-Line Niou , running for New York State Senate in District 27 in Lower Manhattan, joins the show for a conversation about her campaign. In the Fun Half: On Pod Save America, Jon Favreau does a great job of relentlessly pushing DNC chair Ken Martin on his failure to make good on his promise of releasing the autopsy of the 2024 elections. AOC dog walks EPA commissioner Lee Zeldin right into admitting he lied previously when he claimed to not have any meetings with Bayer concerning legal issues surrounding glyphosate. In an exchange between Lee Zeldin and Rep. Josh Harder (D-CA) over the government raising the allowed amount of mercury…

People in this episode

Host: Sam Seder

Guests: Liz Pancotti, Yuh-Line Niou

Topics covered

• politics
• Federal Reserve
• campaigns
• media criticism
• environmental policy

Keywords

• Federal Reserve
• Liz Pancotti
• Yuh-Line Niou
• Marco Rubio
• environmental policy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Groundwork Collaborative, Pod Save America, EPA

Places: New York State, Lower Manhattan

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