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Now that he is the leader, the Louisiana Republican has found himself bowing to governing realities that are now his problem.

The G.O.P. has boasted about cutting the budget of what it calls the “weaponized” F.B.I. by 6 percent. Most of that came from wiping out the pet project of retired Senator Richard C. Shelby.