Noelle King and Andrew Procop join us for Today Explained. The House is stuck in an endless groundhog day like loop of repeatedly voting on the speaker. After 13 failed votes, Kevin McCarthy seems to have decided it's worth it.
The 118th Congress has begun with a showdown over who will be elected House speaker. Vox’s Andrew Prokop argues that this is the culmination of a decade-long trend of stonewalling in Congress.
Today’s show was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Victoria Chamberlin. It was edited by Amina Al-Sadi and was fact-checked by Serena Solin. It was engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and hosted by Noel King
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