Hour 1: There should be an ordinance in the "Carnival Gap Adjustment" fee that states the fee can never go up

This hour, Newell shares his thoughts on a deferred $850-per-float "Carnival Gap Adjustment" fee currently being considered by the New Orleans City Council to help offset the city's $4 million Mardi Gras service deficit. Then, Kedric Payne with the Campaign Legal Center joins the show to examine the legal and ethical questions concerning newly uncovered records about congressional stock trading after Representative Julia Letlow reportedly signed an NDA involving a Meta subsidiary and later made trades involving Meta and Nvidia.