If I understand it right, the last time the democrats had a majority in both the house and senate was in Obama’s first two years. The ACA was the result of that, and it was still watered down due to pressure.
Without control of both houses, the dems are forced to heavily compromise to avoid government shutdowns and just to keep the USA plodding along, food on the table, and kids in school. Fighting just to end up with more or less the status quo was still better than the lurch to the right and insanity that is seen now.
I fear it’s too late for the US now though… at least without some military intervention come voting time. I’m sure they’ll be too busy though. It’s perversely still in china and russia’s interests to keep trump in power, and flare ups will almost certainly be well timed… as they say, never interrupt your enemy while they are busy making mistake after mistake after mistake.
They had a majority during the 1st two years of the Biden administration, which got us the Inflation Reduction Act, which was basically industrial policy to create jobs around ending our need for fossil fuels. The Republicans almost entirely repealed that law earlier this year.
The Obama era got us as much as it did because the Democrats had a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate for a few weeks.
If I understand it right, the last time the democrats had a majority in both the house and senate was in Obama’s first two years. The ACA was the result of that, and it was still watered down due to pressure.
Without control of both houses, the dems are forced to heavily compromise to avoid government shutdowns and just to keep the USA plodding along, food on the table, and kids in school. Fighting just to end up with more or less the status quo was still better than the lurch to the right and insanity that is seen now.
I fear it’s too late for the US now though… at least without some military intervention come voting time. I’m sure they’ll be too busy though. It’s perversely still in china and russia’s interests to keep trump in power, and flare ups will almost certainly be well timed… as they say, never interrupt your enemy while they are busy making mistake after mistake after mistake.
They had a majority during the 1st two years of the Biden administration, which got us the Inflation Reduction Act, which was basically industrial policy to create jobs around ending our need for fossil fuels. The Republicans almost entirely repealed that law earlier this year.
The Obama era got us as much as it did because the Democrats had a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate for a few weeks.