It runs into roadblocks because an overpowered minority faction refuses to support policy and funding decision-making using evidence-based scientific consensus, and given the new speaker is a political extremist who has declared all his decision-making is based on a fictional book, is known to be a creationist and climate-change denier, and comes from a party that almost as a matter of policy opposes virtually all evidence-based science when it comes to policy...yeah, I think it's relevant to mention it.

Claiming disagreements are "just identity politics" is a way of shifting an argument from factual debate to "you don't like me because I don't agree with you."