3661 - ICE's NYC Deportation Blitz; Trump Killing Cancer Cures w/ Whitney Wimbish, Jonathan Cohn

The Majority Report with Sam Seder delivers a blistering critique of the Trump administration’s assault on medical research, framing it not as mere budget cuts but as a deliberate dismantling of America’s scientific infrastructure. At the heart of the episode is a chilling account of a groundbreaking pancreatic cancer treatment developed through decades of federally funded research—only to be jeopardized by a new administration that has frozen grants, purged diversity initiatives, and imposed political litmus tests on science. Jonathan Cohn, author of The Ten-Year War, reveals how the very institutions that birthed this breakthrough—Dana-Farber, Sloan Kettering, UCLA—now face existential threats from a government that views science as a political adversary. The episode warns that the consequences won’t be felt for years, but the damage to the next generation of researchers is already being done. Meanwhile, the show turns to the human cost of political extremism: ICE’s mass deportation blitz in New York City, the gutting of Medicaid through bureaucratic sabotage, and the absurdity of Trump’s ongoing obsession with 2020 election fraud—despite evidence of a landslide win in the electoral college and a plurality of the popular vote. The episode culminates in a surreal, satirical audio collage mocking the administration’s toxic rhetoric, underscoring a central theme: the war on truth, science, and democracy is not just political—it’s existential.