We continue our conversation with Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who responds to President Donald Trump’s freezing of trillions in federal funding this week, which the White House walked back just a day later. Wyden helped pressure the administration to abandon the plan after publicizing how it disrupted Medicaid payments in states across the country. “The credit deserves to go to the whistleblowers who brought it to us,” he says. Wyden also discusses the confirmation hearings for former Democratic Congressmember Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, as well as the growing influence of Big Tech oligarchs and the deadly air crash in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
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