Make sense of what matters in Washington. November 18, 2024 Once Again, Donald Trump Misreads the Senate BY PHILIP ELLIOTT Senior Correspondent, TIME Inside Donald Trump's hermetically sealed bubble of supporters, it's become something of a given that the former and future President can simply bypass Congress and magically fill his Cabinet with the loyalists of his choosing. That might have been the case if Trump didn't want Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth as Attorney General and Secretary of Defense, or Tulsi Gabbard overseeing the nation's spy agencies—not to menti