The Ground Game, Ep. 9 - Roundup!

Pfingsten and I get veteran Hill reporters Matt Laslo and Pablo Manriquez on for a thorough look at the battles to come

Hey friends, sending out the latest episode of The Ground Game Podcast, Patrick and I brought on some Congress experts to break down what happened last week with the start of the second Trump administration and how that’s shaping up on the Hill.

Parents, there is some light cursing, but not much, given the depth and breadth of what happened last week.

Gaetz, Gabbard, Hegseth? Yeah, got that

The conservative media is now the mainstream media (the MSM is conservative) — got that, too

Some real talk on what could happen with deportations? Yep

Face/palm. Yes

Leopard/face. Not yet

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Look for more this week, we’ve got

Kim Wehle

on deck with insights from her latest book, Pardon Power on presidential pardons, the Constitution and more.

And in case you missed last week, we had on Julie Mason — follow

Julie Mason

on Bluesky at @juliemason.bsky.social. I’m on Bluesky @24sight.news and follow Patrick @patrickpfingsten.bsky.social

And, friends, I know a lot of you have questions about what’s real and what’s just played out trolling. I host a regular livestream on the Substack App weekdays at 4p ET. We keep the conversation rolling at the 24sight News chat throughout the week.

Cheers,

Tom