Jane Mayer and Evan Osnos on the Balance of Power at the Start of the Biden Administration - a podcast by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

With Donald Trump rated the least popular President in the span of modern polling, President Biden might feel confident in claiming a mandate to advance his progressive agenda. Yet Democratic majorities in Congress are slim in the House of Representatives, and razor-thin in the Senate. That gives a small number of Democratic conservatives and moderate Republicans outsized influence over what legislation can pass. Senator Mitch McConnell, in a power-sharing arrangement with the Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, remains a force to be reckoned with. What will this balance of power mean for the new Administration? David Remnick poses this question toJane Mayer, who has reported on McConnell’s tenure as a political operator, and toEvan Osnos, who covered Biden’s campaign and wrote a biography of the new President.

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