House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring the party to act like a genuine opposition force in the face of the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on federal agencies and key programs.

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    5 months ago

    Democrats have had less than 50 for over a decade, nothing sudden about it.

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      Their coalition had a majority from 2020-2022. During which time Republicans were all-powerful.

      Stop pretending that we didn’t give your party a majority that they squandered.

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        Um akshually

        We gave them 48 + 2 Ind and VP tiebreaker gave them the majority leader position who calls votes. They literally did not even have a simple majority even with the Independents.