There's a part of me that his genuinely shocked that Bill didn't have an 'episode' during the 2016 Campaign (Possibly this, but Officially a small, or not so small Heart Attack) to
A. generate Sympathy...
B. take him out of circulation as a Talking Point...

for how many Minority Candidates (D) in the last 15 years has "History Making First ____." been 90% of their platform and any (R) that dares run against them is expressly painted by the Party asbeing 'on the wrong side of History' for daring to run against them?

People might try to Run on that platform (despite it being extremely wasteful)...

but even Money, that IF the project is complete and move-in ready on inauguration day ** They would not only leave it standing but they would likely Hold the Inauguration IN the Ballroom to make it "theirs:"

** (I work in construction, few projects regardless of scale, ever come in on time and under budget)

"I mean, shutdowns are terrible and, of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage times we have,"
-- Katherine Clark D-Mass; House Minority Whip

I caught two separate reports from this from two different local news stations this afternoon...

BOTH reports made a point to actively imply that it was part of an "Enemies List" before quantifying that this investigation dates to like Year Two of the Biden administration and has been runningin the background independent of any friction Bolton had with Trump