7/14 Trump Hijacks Science Funding; Minnesota’s Senate Race w/ Elizabeth Ginexi, Peggy Flanagan (M)
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The episode discusses the hijacking of science funding by Trump, the Minnesota Senate race, and various political issues including ICE and media reactions.
FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/15ff1GpQOvA?... It's News Day Tuesday on The Majority Report On today's program: ICE murders another person in cold blood, this time a 26-year-old father was shot in the head in Biddeford, Maine. In the wake of the murder, protestors swarm Susan Collins ' office. Collins voted to provide an additional $70B in funds to ICE earlier this year. Elizabeth Ginexi , former NIH program official for 22 years and publisher of an eponymous Substack newsletter , joins to discuss how a little-noticed OMB rule could gut NIH and community funding. Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan joins to talk about her campaign for U.S. Senate. In the Fun Half: Italian American New Yorker's feelings are hurt over getting left off an immigrant enclave map of the city. PBD tries to capitalize on this "outrage" as a way to attack Mayor Mamdani. Marco Rubio makes his case for dismantling the Internation Criminal Court. Haley Stevens backed by tens of millions of dollars releases attack ads that label Abdul El-Sayed as sexist and mislead audiences into thinking that Obama has endorsed Stevens. Meta's CTO tries to sell Meta glasses as a way to remember people's…
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