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Podcast: Indy Audio
Episode: The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 13 May '25
Description: In our first segment, we speak with democratic socialist State Senator Jabari Brisport of Brooklyn about the recently approved $254 billion-dollar New York State budget which was passed 38 days after its April 1 deadline. We talk with Brisport about the good and the bad of the new budget and why he ultimately voted against it. We will also talk about the convoluted process that led to the final agreement and the Governor’s outsized role in causing the delay.
In the second half of the show, we talk about former governor Andrew Cuomo, who is now the frontrunner in the New York Ci...