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Healthcare Subsides Expire, Trump and Minnesota, Mamdani Takes Office In NYC

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:13:09
Publish Date: 2026-01-01 10:47:00
Description: Health insurance costs jump for millions after pandemic-era Affordable Care Act subsidies expired overnight.
The Trump administration freezes child care funding nationwide after targeting Minnesota over unproven fraud claims tied to Somali-run day care centers.
And New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is sworn in at midnight as he prepares to take office.

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Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Carrie Feibel, Cheryl Corley, Andrea De Leon, Mohamad ElBardicy, and Alice Woelfle.

It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas.

We get engineering support from Stacey Abbott. And our technical director is Carleigh Strange.

Our deputy Executive Producer is Kelley Dickens.

(0:00) Introduction
(02:33) Healthcare Subsidies Expire
(05:53) Trump and Minnesota
(10:06) Mamdani Takes Office in NYC

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