RickJWagner t1_irucvwy wrote on October 11, 2022 at 2:34 AM

Reply to comment by Informal_Self_5671 in Social Security boost will help millions of kids, too by AmethystOrator

Democrats currently control both houses of Congress and the White House.
An ideal time to really fix Social Security? Will they do it?

Extreme_Ad6519 t1_irvfus7 wrote on October 11, 2022 at 10:25 AM

That a party controlling both chambers of Congress and the Chief Executive Office (presidency) means they can pass whatever bills they like is a misconception, especially on the federal level, mainly due to two reasons.

internal disagreements within the majority party (the smaller your majorities in Congress are, the more problematic this becomes)
Senate filibuster (a procedural hurdle which requires 60 instead of 51 votes to end debate on any legislative business)

And currently, Democrats have a razor-thin majority in the House and Senate while Republicans can block any bills from even being considered in the Senate by filibustering.

RealAgent t1_irug208 wrote on October 11, 2022 at 3:00 AM

No neither side ever fix anything. But they both get terribly rich.

DeusExLibrus t1_is25d06 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 7:23 PM

Democrats have tried to fix plenty of things, but they routinely get blocked by Republicans. Both parties are garbage, don’t truly represent the people, and should have been replaced long ago, but only one of them actively blocks the government from doing anything, and it’s not the Democrats.