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If I had to pick, I'd go way smaller. I'd pick the FEC. That's where Ellen Wynetrob works.

I was reading up on the history of your workplace, the Federal Election Commission,

and as I did that, I kept seeing these two words come up, notoriously dysfunctional.

You're laughing, but you've worked there for 20 years. Well, not quite.

Do you work at a notoriously dysfunctional workplace?

Well, I suppose it is. I mean, if enough people say it, it must be true, right? That's the nature

of being notorious. Do you say it's true? I wouldn't say notoriously, I would say, unfortunately.

Ellen's a commissioner at the FEC, part of a six-person leadership team that is purposely split

down the middle, three Republicans, three Democrats. Ellen's a Democrat, by the way.

The idea here is that by keeping the commission in a three-three split and requiring four votes

to get anything done, nonpartisan decision-making will follow. Instead, all the bickering you've

gotten used to in Washington, it plays out in miniature at the FEC. During his term, President

Trump simply refused to appoint commissioners. Eventually, that meant cases couldn't be closed.

Fines weren't imposed. And that was in 2020, the most expensive election cycle ever.

The American people deserve better from the only government agency with civil

enforcement authority over the campaign finance laws. Now, the commission is once again fully

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