It was a strange day in the Capitol on Monday. The government seemed to be in the middle of a three-day hangover after a 43-day Spring Break saturnalia in Cabo. The Congress moved gingerly, like a man with a skull two sizes bigger than his head, and it seemed to be wondering if it yet could risk some solid food. The Senate was not in session. And the House of Representatives met only nominally. The president's monumental flip-flop on the Epstein files—" Go on. Release them. See if I care. Nyah, nyah!"— rather deadened the momentum that had been building since the shutdown ended and Adelita Grijalva was sworn in, and the discharge petition passed. Speaker Moses still maintained that a vote on releasing the files would come on Wednesday and the general mood was a weird combination of antic

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