place work for everybody. so you can see the circle of lawmakers around gaetz and boebert and so far there s no movement. we re waiting on the official word, the official tally and that will come out when the clerk makes that announcement. it s interesting bret because earlier on sean hannity you had matt gaetz saying listen i couldn t think of anything else to ask for making it appear that kevin mccarthy really did give up the ranch to get those final votes. yeah. and what we ve heard so far, the plan was was that this was going to be smooth, that the plane was going to land, that they were going to get mccarthy s the speaker s gavel and then they were going to move on to the rules package. that could be a little stickier because, from what we ve heard, it s not all in stone as far as written down what they have promised behind the scenes. and that may be part, you know, that may be problematic voting on the rules package. but they ve got to get the
stickier, wage inflation for example is showing no real signs of coming down and there are other sort of idiosyncratic issues with the uk economy, the housing market, for example, is under a lot of pressure, taxes are rising, government spending is falling. and of course you must remember thatjust because must remember that just because inflation, must remember thatjust because inflation, the inflation rate is coming down, it doesn t mean the cost of living is coming down on those heating bills are still two or three times what they were before the invasion of ukraine a year ago. fire they were before the invasion of ukraine a year ago. are less generous of ukraine a year ago. are less generous government - of ukraine a year ago. are less generous government will - of ukraine a year ago. are less generous government will be l generous government will be increasing the typical uk gas and household electricity bills in april of this year and that is true for businesses as well and we
probably wondering why does this matter? and those of you, especially those that are medically higher risk, why are we talking about yet another variant. what s different about this variant, why we should be talking about it more when we re talking about covid is, this is arguably the most contagious version of the virus yet. last year this time, you ll remember, we talked a lot about omicron. it s all over the news because it was very contagious. that was the version of the virus that if you inhaled it from the air, it was going to stick to your cells and it was more stickier and infective than any variants. it turns out that xbb is the most sticky, the most contagious version of the virus yet. if you haven t been boosted, if you re over 65 or outside that four to six-month window, make sure you have a plan. if you test positive for covid,
polling shows, trump voters are stickier. they re more likely to stick with him than biden voters were if there were a third choice that could give them a chance to dilute democratic votes. in the house, republicans, the margin slim, but they got it, and they are planting targets for their first wave of biden administration investigations. who are they looking at first is this. jonathan, we have seen again and again, they plan to be super aggressive. you and i have talked about the early start they got by telling agencies across the government, preserve your documents. even something very unusual, telling officials in those agencies, preserve documents on your personal devices related to these issues. now we re seeing a blueprint for what s to come. axios has letters from house republicans to the administration about the decision making that went into the withdrawal from afghanistan. of course one of the low points