Congress’s newest member, Adelita Grijalva, came to Washington DC this week, expecting to be officially sworn in by the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
Two days later, she returned to her southern Arizona district disappointed, if not a little confused.
Trapped in the purgatorial status of representative-elect, she had to be escorted around the Capitol building by her soon-to-be-colleagues, like any other member of the public.
Her name is on the door of her new office, but she does not have the keys.
The matter of the Epstein files has for months been a thorn in the side of the president and his allies in Congress.
It just needs the signatures of 218 lawmakers to succeed, and has currently received 217 – Grijalva’s would be the last one.
“That doesn’t make sense, why I wouldn’t be sworn in, in the same pace that they were?” »