A New York Times article profiles the scientists and physicians newly elected to Congress, most of them Democrats, including former math professor and Evanston mayor Daniel K. Biss, who quips that he has "pretty much cornered the market" on matroid Grassmannians. The incoming lawmakers plan to use their expertise against what they see as the Trump administration's anti-science policies, and figures like 314 Action's Shaughnessy Naughton and microbiologist Jasmine Clark, who calls the MAHA movement "an absolute disaster," welcome the shift.