More than five thousand adult Sussex County residents stand to lose health care coverage if the Trump administration and a Republican-controlled Congress carry through with their threat to dismantle the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion provision.

Democrats in the legislature are being asked to investigate allegations that Gov. Chris Christie used taxpayer paid staff in his administration as workers for his 2013 re-election campaign.

Many of New Jersey’s state senators, including senate president Steve Sweeney and Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, hope that president-elect Donald Trump will make good on his promise to rebuild the nation’s crumbling infrastructure by making the Gateway Tunnel project a priority.

While Hillary Clinton’s vote tally leads Donald Trump by over two million, the Republicans have nonetheless captured the presidency. And while more votes were cast nationwide for Democratic Party senators, the Republicans continue to rule the Senate. The House of Representatives is also in Republican control. Soon, new appointments will tilt the Supreme Court heavily toward the conservative side. The Republican Party has run the table.

Things get even bleaker as you cast your gaze beyond our nation’s capital. Democrats now occupy just 3,129 seats in the state legislatures, compared to the Republicans' 4,170. Starting in January, Republicans will control over two thirds of all state legislative chambers.

But this is not a comment about winning and losing. Instead, it’s about unchecked power.

A federal judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction on Tuesday against an Obama administration regulation expanding by millions the number of workers who would be eligible for time-and-a-half overtime pay.

On Friday, President Obama announced a five-year, temporary ban on offshore drilling off the Atlantic coast. On Monday, in a guest editorial in the Newark Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez made the case for making the ban permanent.