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Dems also had a trifecta in 2021-2023 as well.

There wasn’t (and still isn’t, sadly) political appetite for ending the Senate filibuster, so reform is limited to Byrd rule nonsense.

The ~5 months Democrats had an a functional supermajority under Obama in 2009/10 was used to get the ACA passed as written.




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