We’ll ask how one man and one party can bring so much chaos and dysfunction before they’re even officially sworn into office—since it’s appearing more likely that there will be a government shutdown just ahead of the holidays. And Assembly Speaker Robin Vos wants to copy Elon Musk by creating another layer of bureaucracy to track government waste in the bureaucracy! We list the many ways Vos could begin this examination of waste with a look in his own fiscal mirror.

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