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By Bob Hennelly
On this episode of WBAI’s Front Line Voices, host Rebecca Myles explores the impact Trump's so-called “Big Beautiful” tax bill will have on working families with Sarah Anderson from the Institute for Policies Studies. India Walton also discusses her unsuccessful run for Mayor of Buffalo as a democratic socialist and what it may portend for Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani’s run for New York City mayor.
By Bob Hennelly
On the latest episode of "What’s Going On?” Vinnie Variale, president of DC 37 Local 3621—the FDNY EMS officers union—talks about Mayor Eric Adams’ handling of NYC’s deepening EMS crisis where response times have risen in excess of ten minutes for the most serious life threatening situations as calls volumes continue to surge.
By Bob Hennelly
Across the country and here in our region local and state governments are scrambling to assess the damage from the passage of President Trump's so-called "Big Beautiful" bill. The new budget bill strips 17 million Americans of their healthcare and shrinks the vital food stamp program—all to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers and corporations while exponentially increasing spending to execute Trump's mass deportation program by making Immigration and Customs Enforcement the nation's largest law enforcement agency.