When control of Congress and the White House falls under one party, it’s easier to get legislation passed. As Democrats proved in early 2021, a tie in the Senate and rules surrounding reconciliation, bypassing cloture motions, allowed them to pass the American Rescue Plan Act, a $2 trillion behemoth of a spending bill.

However, when one party controls the House, and the other controls the Senate and the White House, it’s different. The Republican Party controls the House, while the Democrats have a razor-thin majority in the Senate and control of the White House. However, I’m getting feelings of deja vu, as it is giving me flashbacks to the early 2010s when the breakdown was the same. For whatever reason, Tea Party members in the House behaved as if the GOP controlled all of government and balked at passing spending bills that didn’t contain everything they wanted.