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I believe the paragraph below is a uneducated guess, not withstanding any other part of the piece. Muskrat did not burn out or get thrown out, he accomplished exactly what he wanted and that was complete and utter decimation of all lawsuits and negative regulations against him and his companies while picking up billions in non bid government contracts. He got out when the getting was good because he knows his crimes will ultimately be revealed.

A government-wide restructuring under the “department of government efficiency” (Doge) was led by the billionaire Elon Musk and resulted in mass federal layoffs and the dismantling of agencies such as USAID. But Trump and Musk fell out and Doge burned itself out.

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Five cheers for pushback against lawlessness: "Skye Perryman, president and chief executive of Democracy Forward, a national-legal organisation that has filed numerous lawsuits against the administration, said: “This administration has been ruthlessly breaking the law, disregarding the protections that are provided through American law for people and communities. It has been governing in a way that is on a collision course with the constitution.”

She gave examples including infringement of free speech, disregard for due process, an effort to replace civil servants with political loyalists, and a federal funding freeze that threatened food and nutritional assistance for 42 million Americans. But Perryman also finds hope in the way that people have responded.

“The American people have been pushing back. There have been nearly 500 lawsuits filed in federal court over the course of these first 11 months of the administration. The administration is losing in court before judges that were appointed by Republicans, Democrats and President Trump himself.”"

Your - Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing

Aside: - 40 seats would do, - 45 would be better --