It's the Brian Lair Show on WNYC.

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

Mother's Day is this Sunday, and we'll be celebrating by talking to the cartoonist Leanna Fink. She's got a sweet new book out called How to Baby. And moms, we're going to take your calls to on what surprised you most about early motherhood. Plus, we'll explain how the trillions of cicadas emerging this year will affect the environment

and answer your questions on this rare event.

And have you ever wondered how apartments are considered affordable, especially when it seems

like they're not?

Well, we're going to dig into the metrics used and why they often seem out of whack with

people's economic realities.

But first, 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?

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