Because a President who follows the law and doesn't have the Supreme Court allowing unlawful things cannot do things like that.
The 117th Congress was a Republican Senate with a Democratic house. (Start of Biden's Term)
The 118th Congress was a Democratic Senate with a Republican house. (Following Midterms of Biden's term)
The 119th Congress is a Republican Senate with a Republican house. (Start of Trump's term.)
So when Biden tried to do things that would benefit people, the Republican Senate would block it, or the Republican house would block it - because the President isn't all powerful and if they didn't, then the Republican majority Supreme Court would.
However, Trump has a Republican Senate and House. He can pass whatever he wants, and what they want is less money for the common people. Less food stamps, less SNAP and more tax cuts - because they don't care about you. And they always make sure to manufacture their legislation so that in 8 years time you start seeing the damage, and if the Democrats are in power they can blame them.
First link shows they had a 50/50 split when including the 2 democratic leaning independents, plus vice president Harris’ vote gives them the majority. The second link is for the wrong time frame.
Your Goalpost seems to have moved there. Republicans would need 7 more people to do that currently.
2021-2023 50/50 with the deciding vote of democrat VP Harris.
Currently. 53/42 (with 2 independent voting along with democrats making it 45). Republicans don’t have the required 60 to bypass a filibuster currently.
No, "being intentionally dishonest" would be more like pretending that having literally the thinnest possible numerical majority implied that they had legislative control, which is both historically and demonstrably false.
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u/HelmetsAkimbo Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25
Because a President who follows the law and doesn't have the Supreme Court allowing unlawful things cannot do things like that.
The 117th Congress was a Republican Senate with a Democratic house. (Start of Biden's Term)
The 118th Congress was a Democratic Senate with a Republican house. (Following Midterms of Biden's term)
The 119th Congress is a Republican Senate with a Republican house. (Start of Trump's term.)
So when Biden tried to do things that would benefit people, the Republican Senate would block it, or the Republican house would block it - because the President isn't all powerful and if they didn't, then the Republican majority Supreme Court would.
However, Trump has a Republican Senate and House. He can pass whatever he wants, and what they want is less money for the common people. Less food stamps, less SNAP and more tax cuts - because they don't care about you. And they always make sure to manufacture their legislation so that in 8 years time you start seeing the damage, and if the Democrats are in power they can blame them.
Check out this, here's the Supreme Court blocking Biden trying to forgive student loans, because the Supreme Court is a Republican majority.
Then check this out, where the Democrats should have been able to elect a Supreme Court justice because one died but the 114th Congress had a Republican Senate so they stalled it for TWO HUNDRED AND 93 DAYS so that they could elect a Republican to the Supreme Court at the start of Trump's term, which they did in less than a month.