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You haven't said which government so I'll assume you mean the American one.
There are plenty of people with both means and influence. The problem is that they just got voted out, and there aren't enough Republicans that are moderate enough to start voting against Trump.
Yet.
And that's the key thing. As Trump gets more and more trumpy, the more moderate Republicans will start getting hacked off with it all and will start voting against their party, or at the very least abstaining. IIRC the Rep majority is 3, so there need to be 4 Rep abstentions to get a united Dem opposition over the line.
The problem is that doing so is likely to end their political career. So there needs to be some really good mileage in them voting with the Democrats.
As the Republicans hold a majority and all of them are currently with Trump, whatever Trump says goes. Even if all Dems say no, that isn't a majority no until they start getting some objections from the Reps.
So ultimately the power lies with the voters. If the Reps won't vote in the country's interests then the country needs to start voting in the country's interests. Trump said what he was going to do, and the whole point of Trump is that he isn't the usual lying politician that says whatever it takes to get into power then does whatever they want anyway. So "I didn't think he meant it" isn't going to fly when Trump does what Trump said he would. (Although obviously he didn't end putin's war on day 1, so the list of Trump's broken promises is already not empty.)
There were plenty of non-voting voters who could have made the Reps a tiny minority. But for some reason they couldn't bring themselves to vote for Harris, so they opted out. Personally I'm surprised she couldn't win simply on "I'm not Trump".