It's Wednesday, July 23rd.
I'm Jane Coastin, and this is What A Day,
the show that is celebrating the Republican Party's toughness and anti-establishment attitude that it will have the second a Democrat is back in the White House.
For now, though,
the GOP is busy demanding that the Kennedy Center's Opera House be named after First Lady Melania Trump.
Might as well wave a tread-hard-around-me-daddy flag from the Capitol dome.
On today's show, interim U.S.
Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Haba is out of a job.
Maybe.
And the United Nations delivers a stark warning about mass starvation in Gaza.
But let's start with Congress.
Remember Congress?
House lawmakers start their summer vacation today.
They will be out until September.
They're even leaving D.C. several days earlier than expected.
How very French of them.
Anyway, they're leaving early because Republican Speaker Mike Johnson is trying desperately.
desperately to avoid holding any votes on releasing materials related to the Jeffrey Epstein case
because per speaker Johnson quote,
we're done being lectured on transparency.