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Print The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s biggest business lobby, is encountering challenges on multiple fronts as it seeks warmer relations with Democrats after years of lockstep loyalty to Republicans - a strategic shift that is souring relations with some GOP allies on Capitol Hill and alarming some members and state affiliates. The blowback from Republicans threatens to further upend the Chamber’s longtime status as the most potent corporate lobby in Washington, just as the Biden administration pushes a sweeping agenda that includes significant tax hikes on big businesses and ...

A multi-year plan by the Chamber of Commerce to broaden its political standing has angered some long-time members and allies, part of a broader shift for the business lobby.

Primary elections have become more important in the current political scene, and if business groups want to have their voices heard, they will have to become more active at that level. “It’s imperative that business groups assert their voice and clarity in those primaries for national offices,” Engstrom said. Despite having won the White House, Democrats hold but a slim majority in the House and only the slimmest of majorities in the Senate, with Vice President Kamala Harris being left to break any ties in a chamber evenly split between the two parties. That means compromise will be ne...