Bipartisan Biden

It's tempting to say that the partisan environment in the US hasn't changed much despite a change in presidency. Throughout his campaign Biden promised a return to normalcy and an era where bipartisanship was the order of the day. Democrats had to pass COVID relief measures through reconciliation which neither required nor received any support from Republicans. Republicans put paid to any plans of bipartisan investigation of the 6th Jan insurrection. But if you look under the hood, things are changing. Republicans and Democrats have reached a trillion dollar infrastructure deal that has bipartisan support. There are promising negotiations on police reforms and gun control too. Whether they materialise or not, just the fact that there are serious bipartisan efforts on some of the most contentious issues is progress. A bipartisan deal of this size eluded both Trump and Obama but Joe Biden, who has forever been underestimated, managed to pull off a nearly trillion dol