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Conservative Republicans, however, like the status quo — no doubt because two GOP candidates in recent years have won the presidency while losing the popular vote: Trump in 2016 and George W. Bush in 2000.

For example, in a scenario requiring use of more water-efficient irrigation technologies, water pumped is only 5% lower than for the status quo scenario, offering only minor improvements.

But, of course, it's only in the delusional alternative universe where Republicans live that the "status quo" is a space where victims of sexual violence typically see justice.

He knew he would be upsetting some of those who benefit from the murky status quo when the $20bn project began.

"They are persons who will shake up the status quo," House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union.