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Previously, Schumer had argued that Democrats’ use of reconciliation to pass the COVID-19 relief package pushed by Biden made bipartisanship “more likely.” He made the claim despite everyone in Washington knowing that the purpose of using reconciliation was to obviate the need to get any GOP votes at all.
Republicans also complain about Democrats talking up the importance of bipartisanship while holding over their heads the possibility of doing away with the Senate filibuster a move that McConnell has said would lead to a “nuclear winter” in the Senate.
The bigger problem, though, may lie with a Washington culture including the political media that fetishizes the concept of bipartisanship without ever delving into why this supposed virtue is in such short supply.