The Trump administration is expected to undergo fresh shake-ups at the Cabinet level after the midterms, but the worst chaos may be reserved for lower-level aides who stay. Democrats are widely predicted to win the House of Representatives, giving the Trump team its first experience of an opposition Congress.
Officials from the administrations of former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama describe work life in the White House under divided government as "excruciating," Politico reports. One Clinton staffer likened it, in Politico's paraphrase, to "getting dental work without anesthesia," while a Bush official called it "one of the most demoralizing times of his career."
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