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Lisa Benson cartoon on Democrats’ resistance against Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

He began drawing editorial cartoons full-time for The Journal News in Westchester County in 1993, and in 2009 started drawing for The Hearst Newspaper Group in Connecticut.