It seems to defy logic: Democrats are ending a year in which they passed trillions of dollars for pandemic aid and infrastructure not in celebration, but instead dogged by failure.
In an alternate universe, a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package paired with a $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure law would make for a very successful first year for President Joe Biden with an evenly split Senate. But Democrats set sky-high expectations for their climate and social spending bill, not to mention other highly ambitious legislation, that Biden and party leaders didn't meet.
“The true problem is, we haven’t talked about what’s been accomplished near enough, and I think that’s a bigger problem than setting expectations,” added Sen. Jon Tester . “They’re both dangerous, by the way. Setting expectations too high? I don’t know if that’s the problem, as much as just letting people know what we’ve done.”After claiming two GOP-held Senate seats in January, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer began his reign vowing that the Senate would pursue a “big and bold” agenda.
Manchin's and Sinema’s opposition to changing the chamber's 60-vote threshold also did not shift, no matter how many meetings the party held with them. There’s a year left for legislating before the midterms, but Washington is now entering a historically less-productive election season. “What’s the alternative? I think the alternative is to tell people what they can’t have and why, and that’s a heck of a way to govern,” said Sen. Brian Schatz . “I don’t think there’s any other way to do it, other than to try to govern in the way that you campaigned, which is to try to accomplish everything that you promised. But as they say, you campaign in poetry and govern in prose.”
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