This is Brian Lair's daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Friday, May 10th.

I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom, filling in for Brian today.

We're going to kick things off with some Friday morning politics straight from the nation's capital. The activity on the Hill

this week brought together some rather unlikely company in that failed effort to remove another

House Speaker. 359 House members voted to block a measure introduced by Georgia Congress member Marjorie Taylor

Green to oust Speaker Mike Johnson. But there was an unusual coalition of members who voted to

move it forward, including 10 of Green's far-right allies and 32 Democrats. We're going to talk about

who voted with Green, particularly from New York, and why they voted that way.

Plus, the House held another hearing on anti-Semitism in schools, this time featuring the leaders of several public school systems from the bluest parts of the country, including New York City.

And there's a renewed effort to add a citizenship question to the U.S. census.

We're going to talk about who's behind that and what it could mean for a state like New York

and more with Politico-Congressional reporter Nicholas Wu.

Nicholas, thanks for joining us this morning.

Thanks so much for having me.

All right, let's start with that vote to vacate the Speaker's Chair. Can you help set up the

tension here? What prompted Representative Marjorie Taylor Green to finally try this after many

weeks of threatening it? Well, I think what happened here was the culmination of a long series of

threats played out over weeks by Congressman Green

about ousting the Speaker. It started with Speaker Johnson's bringing the foreign aid bill

to the floor. And this was something that it was very clear from the beginning, Congresswoman

Green did not have the votes for.

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