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You could mostly just get rid of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and most of the really bad stuff of late would be resolved. /s

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Hrm, if only the republicans could control all three branches of the government, surely they'd be able to allocate funds if that were the case?

I suspect that a lot of republican higher ups specifically avoided funding the border wall until they lost control of the house so they could manufacture this crisis (especially as the potential to fund the border wall was offered by democrats earlier and declined by republicans, and the senate passed a "just keep it open" bill before going on winter recess).

There is control, and then there is control. In the previous senate, less than half of the senators would reliably vote as republicans.

Yea I know, those ones tended to vote with Trump sometimes!

In all serious I don't know if this was meant as sarcasm but party cohesion in the republican party is quite high, it's one of the reasons the republican minority was effective against Obama - senators would freely discard logic to toe the party line.

When the majority is only 51 to 49, "quite high" doesn't cut it. Even with the VP to break ties, it only takes two defectors to lose. Commonly there were three defectors.

ah that's a nice false equivalence.

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