Chuck Schumer
But at least the Senate’s top Republican is still connected to reality, while his House counterpart is tethered only to Trump.
But it doesn’t have to be—if Democrats can find a way to give relief to middle-class Democrats in high-tax states without rewarding the rich in the process.
Democratic lawmakers would’ve balked at passing both a $1.5 trillion spending bill and a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill in 2016. Now that sum is too small to be taken seriously.
Amid the wheeling and the dealing in Washington predictably going nowhere, there’s cruelty and chaos at the Texas-Mexico border on Biden’s watch.
Democrats could raise the ceiling by themselves, but they want Republicans to let them off the hook by supplying the votes they’d prefer not to cast.
She laid down a credible threat, and got results. Now she needs to sell her progressive colleagues on settling for most of what they demanded instead of blowing the whole thing up.
“Do you understand critics that think you were too silent during the last attack?” McCain asked the Jewish majority leader before repeatedly pressing him to decry antisemitism.