Florida does not need Congress to act—and does not need to challenge the Census itself.

The Senate’s reaction—freezing nominations, demanding investigations be dropped rather than concluded, and admitting there may be no procedural path forward—signals how intolerable that reframing would be to the current order.

With Mitch McConnell showing visible decline and no longer serving as party leader, the old assumption — that one man is personally directing every strategic pause — no longer fits the facts. What remains is a familiar Washington pattern: power disperses to those who control time and money.