IMO the elephant in the room is this congress is nothing more than a giant pecker contest. They aren't working for the people of America, they are unethical toddlers, padding their own bank accounts, tossing America under the bus for their own power, and if they were all named Pinocchio, their noses would be so long they could stab us all in the back with their noses instead of their corrupt and stupid activity.
I am not an anti-government person, I am however, a small government person. But in my opinion this is the worst collection of incompetent congressional buffoons I've ever seen in my lifetime. I'm convinced people go into politics because they are too useless and stupid to do anything functional in society, so what do they do? They run for congress.