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This is Fresh Air. I'm Dave Davies.

If you follow the news, you know these are strange and

turbulent times in Washington, as the Trump administration sinks to shrink and recast the federal

government with blinding speed and fury. Trump's opponents would no doubt like to see Congress

assert its authority to stop the dismantling of agencies and programs

its past members have authorized. We haven't seen much of that, but we have seen bills

introduced to enable a third Donald Trump term, rename Della's airport after him, and carve

his image into Mount Rushmore. Whatever happens, our two guests today have the experience, insight, and sources to tell the story.

Annie Carney and Luke Broadwater are both veteran reporters who cover Washington for the New York Times,

and they've written a new book about the 118th Congress, the one elected in 2022.

It's a look inside the corridors of power when Democrat Joe Biden was president,

dealing with what the author say was the first MAGA-controlled Congress, one that fully

adopted the extremism and stagecraft of Trumpism. There are fascinating accounts of high-stakes

negotiations and of House members cursing, insulting, and threatening each other, but not a lot of serious legislating.

The House passed only 27 bills that became law in its two-year session, the lowest number since the Great Depression.

Before joining the New York Times in 2018, Annie Carney worked at Politico, the New York Daily News, and the New York Post.

Luke Broadwater worked for nearly a decade at the Baltimore Sun, where he won a Pulitzer Prize

for stories about a scandal at the state's largest hospital system that led to the resignation

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