Print this article Republicans are beginning to coalesce around a message for confronting President Biden’s new administration, with one GOP missive stating: “There’s bipartisan agreement. … Joe Biden’s a partisan.” The GOP is hammering Biden’s executive orders, his use of a budgetary maneuver to pass a COVID-19 relief package without Senate Republicans (despite their offers to compromise), and even occasional clashes with the dwindling number of centrist and red-state Democrats on Capitol Hill to undercut the new president’s talk of “unity.” “Biden is starting his presidency as one of the most partisan in history, exposing his campaign pledge to reach across the aisle as another empty promise,” said Republican National Committee Rapid Response Director Tommy Pigott. “In the early hours of the morning, in a vote strictly on party lines, the Senate adopted Bernie Sanders’s budget resolution necessary to force through a partisan bill using the Biden-supported reconciliation process.”