the house january 3rd and they re waisting no time lining up a flurry of investigations. rich: the administration points out republicans do not officially take power until next week. it says gop can rerequest for fear at that time. republicans call it an attempt to deflect and distract. the important thing everyone needs to understand about those respects, 100% of that pertains to taxpayer dollars. to money being spent with covid, money being spent in afghanistan with weapons being left behind, money being spent with different projects and different agencies within the federal government. that s what the oversight committee s role is. julie: we have team fox coverage. let s get to peter doocy who joins us live from the white house. good morning. the white house says they ll play ball but since the last congress is over all the subpoenas written while temp was speaker will have to be resent when republicans take over. a spokesman for the white house counsel s office is
the house january 3rd and they re waisting no time lining up a flurry of investigations. rich: the administration points out republicans do not officially take power until next week. it says gop can rerequest for fear at that time. republicans call it an attempt to deflect and distract. the important thing everyone needs to understand about those respects, 100% of that pertains to taxpayer dollars. to money being spent with covid, money being spent in afghanistan with weapons being left behind, money being spent with different projects and different agencies within the federal government. that s what the oversight committee s role is. julie: we have team fox coverage. let s get to peter doocy who joins us live from the white house. good morning. the white house says they ll play ball but since the last
right now. here is congressman andy biggs, one of the republicans who said he won t vote for leader mccarthy. we ll have to have that vote on january 3rd. right now nobody has 218 votes, which is the magic number. and i m not i don t believe we ll see that until january 3rd and it will take a few ballots to shake it out. rich: we asked biggs if there were any scenario where mccarthy gets his vote. he said he doesn t think so. how much does it delay what republicans are trying to do and how long will it take? we don t know what will happen until they have the actual vote. a lot of times these things come down last minute in a deal that gets them through. i have no particular beef for kevin mccarthy. i think some of the other people like steve scalise would be the good choice.
that creates all sorts of normal political news. it poses all sorts of political questions. the democrats know they ll only control both houses of congress until january 3rd, which is when the new congress will be sworn in, and the republicans will then take over the house. anything the democrats want to get done, while they control both the house and senate before the republicans take the house january 3rd, democrats have got to do it now, which might make you think they d be in a hurry to get stuff done in the limited remaining time, right? i mean, the clock is ticking here. it s only 36 days until the republicans take over the house. you might think because of that that the democrats are planning on working around the clock for all of those 36 days, right? making use of all the time they have left to get as much done as possible before the republicans arrive and nothing can be done. alas, that is not the approach. of the 36 days between now and the republicans taking over half
it poses all sorts of political questions. the democrats now know they ll only control both houses of congress until january 3rd, which is when the new congress will be sworn in, and the republicans will then take over the house. anything the democrats want to get done, while they control t both the house and the senate before the republicans take the house january 3rd, democrats have got to do it now, which might make you think they d be in a hurry to get stuff done in the limited remaining time, t right? i mean, the clock is ticking here. it s only 36 days until the republicans take over the house. you might think because of that that the democrats would be planning on working around the d clock for all of those 36 days, right? making use of all the time they have left to get as much done as possible before the republicans arrive and nothing can be done. alas, that is not the approach. of the 36 days between now and the republicans taking over half of congress january 3rd, the