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It sure didn’t take long for the chaos that seems to be a trademark of the GOP’s one-party government to flare across the nation.

Only one week into his presidency, Donald Trump’s radical approach to gutting government backfired spectacularly, giving full proof that running the federal government like it was “The Apprentice” reality TV show doesn’t work.

In the meantime, here in Montana the one-party GOP rule is wrapped around the axle as it tries to deal with the actions of the former Senate President, who is facing ethics charges over a last-minute buddy-buddy contract deal to shovel some state money to a pal.

Make no mistake, there is no other way to paint Trump’s executive order to halt all federal funding for a huge swathe of the nation as other than a total disaster. Within hours of scratching his signature with a fat Sharpie on the order, chaos broke out as, among many, many........

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