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Mullin voted against the infrastructure he now manages

Biden's 2021 Infrastructure Bill allocated $25 billion for air travel, including $5 billion for FAA system upgrades. Markwayne Mullin voted against it. Now Trump's put him in charge of managing that same infrastructure he rejected at the time.
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Pattern accelerating: Mullin opposed infrastructure investment, now he's wrecking the system he wouldn't fund. Duffy blames Congress for the same failures happening on Trump's watch. The administration is systematically dismantling institutions while pretending Congress broke them first.

Johnson blocks FAA investigation into ground stop

Speaker Mike Johnson just said "we don't really need any investigation" into the FAA ground stop that paralyzed the country. This is the same week Duffy conceded the timing was indefensible, Mullin blamed the system changes, and Congress grilled both of them about infrastructure failures. Now the guy who controls what Congress investigates is saying: never mind, move on. The pattern is set. They break it, deny it, blame someone else, then kill the investigation before it starts.
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Trump's transport team has spent the week blaming each other for the FAA meltdown while Johnson now moves to bury the whole thing. The pattern: break systems, deny responsibility, block oversight.

Billionaires won California. Except once.

Right-wing money flooded the California midterms and got nearly everything it wanted. One loss though: Jane Kim won the insurance commissioner race. The San Francisco Chronicle's response? Complain that voters are tired and suggest maybe we should stop letting people vote on so many things. Because democracy is the problem, not the billionaires.
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OPINION: Californians are suffering from extreme ballot fatigue. Now we need to worry about what Jane Kim will do as insurance commissioner. We need a fix, columnist Emily Hoeven writes. https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emilyhoeven/article/insurance-commissioner-jane-kim-california-22517041.php?taid=6af860038a00c90001226dd7&utm_campaign=trueanthem%2B3988&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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Part of a larger pattern where Trump's team and its allies are failing spectacularly and blaming everyone but themselves, while establishment institutions bend over backward to accommodate their dysfunction instead of demanding accountability.