COUNTERPOINT RADIO, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) Alex Lawson, Executive Director of the group Social Security Works, discusses the House GOP budget resolution that calls for $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid to help pay for extending the 2017 tax cuts, primarily benefiting the wealthiest Americans. They'll also talk about the group's campaign to educate and mobilize Americans to oppose this proposal that will eliminate millions of Americans' access to affordable health care.

2) Elizabeth Jacobs, Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona discusses rising concern about newly confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr's agenda at this sprawling agency, and the damage his anti-science views could inflict on the federal health response to contagious diseases such as measles and bird flu, federally funded research on new drugs and food safety, as well as supervision of Medicare, Medicaid, CHIPS and the ACA.

3) Maria J. Stephan, Co-Lead and Chief Organizer with the Horizons Project is the author and editor of five books on authoritarianism and civil resistance, including the award-winning book, "Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict." She talks about her recent article, "We are stronger than we think," and issues related to the rising protest movement opposing the Trump/ Musk agenda, the power of collective defiance and how to make cruelty backfire.

4) Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont's Senate Floor Speech February 4, 2025 – In this excerpt of Sander’s speech he addresses the Trump-Musk coup, describing it as a dangerous movement toward oligarchy, authoritarianism & kleptocracy.

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