How MAGA Took Over Congress with NYT’s Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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How did MAGA come to control Congress? It’s the story New York Times reporters Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater chart in a new book exposing what they call the unparalleled dysfunction of the 118th congress, where Republicans ground federal legislation to a standstill and pushed moderates out, to the point that “the moments Congress worked felt like brief interruptions of a long fall down a rabbit hole.” We talk to Karni and Broadwater about how MAGA extremism became mainstream in Congress, along with the latest political news. Their book is “Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man with Rats in His Walls Broke Congress.” Guests: Annie Karni, congressional correspondent, New York Times; co-author, "Mad House" Luke Broadwater, White House reporter, New York Times; previous congressional correspondent, The Times; co author,"Mad House" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.2	Meantime, the president escalates a showdown with a federal judge. The chaos and outrages of Trump's
1:24.0	MAGA administration are consistent with the story of the 118th or first MAGA-controlled
1:30.1	Congress, a story New York Times reporters Luke Broadwater and Annie Carney tell in their new book,
1:36.9	Madhouse. We look at the similarities after this news.
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