After a chaotic begin, the 118th Congress is now in full swing and Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reaping what he sowed after a protracted battle with a rogue faction of the Republican caucus. However with a razor-thin GOP majority within the Home, Democrats in charge of the Senate, and Joe Biden within the White Home, expectations are low within the Beltway that any actual governance will occur over the subsequent two years. What is to be anticipated are investigations—a number of them.
On this episode of Contained in the Hive, Self-importance Honest’s politics correspondent Bess Levin and nationwide political reporter Abigail Tracy break down committee shenanigans (they’re poised to probe every little thing from Hunter Biden to the origins of the COVID pandemic), the “present that retains on giving” that’s George Santos, and the risks of a Ron DeSantis presidency—would you slightly, him or Donald Trump?
