Senate power-sharing agreement unsettled with Democrats about to take slim majority

Published January 19, 2021 6:12pm ET



Sens. Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer have a long road to go in working out agreements on power-sharing and other immediate issues for the 50-50 divided Senate.

Time is running out for McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, and Schumer, a New York Democrat, with just one day before President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated and Schumer is set to become the majority leader of the Senate with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s tiebreaking vote.

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