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The Biden Switcheroo & McCarthy’s Life After Congress

News and notes on the hottest topics in town: speculation about Biden’s musical chairs, and schadenfreude regarding how McCarthy’s lust for the speakership may set back his post-speakership financial opportunities.

Anita Dunn, senior advisor to President Joe Biden, and White House Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs Reema Dodin
Anita Dunn, senior advisor to President Joe Biden, and White House Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs Reema Dodin. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
December 13, 2022

It’s revolving door season in Washington: lawmakers with senioritis are bidding adieu, a new congress is a few weeks from commencing, Hakeem Jeffries has received the baton from Nancy Pelosi, and Kevin McCarthy is trying to play “saboteur” whack-a-mole for a job he always wanted, no matter how unappetizing it presents itself to be. Hope springs eternal in a town where everyone is writing—and rewriting, and re-rewriting—their narrative in real time. And that’s especially true in the White House, the human laboratory that usually undergoes its fair share of professional turnover coming out of the midterms.