Every president makes a commitment to bipartisanship, but few actually succeed in bringing the parties together.
Biden, who served in the Senate for more than three decades before becoming vice president, thinks he can defy history.
After his party’s wins in Georgia’s Senate runoff elections, Biden will at least have a Democratic House and Senate to help him.
But his majorities are razor-thin, creating a unique challenge for Biden.
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Even with congressional majorities, Trump and former Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush ran into trouble.
Clinton’s stimulus plan in 1993 never got real traction and it was torpedoed by Republicans and centrist Democrats in the Senate.