Democrats Officially Get the Senate Majority. Now What?

What should we expect from Senate Democrats now that they’ve got an outright majority in Congress’ upper chamber.

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Well, it’s official. Georgia’s Raphael Warnock has now won the runoff election against Herschel Walker, and Democrats now have an outright 51–49 majority in the Senate.

Discussing the implications of these new numbers, Kimberly Leonard, Warren Rojas, and John L. Dorman with Business Insider write:

“…Incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock’s victory in the Peach State on Tuesday over retired football player Herschel Walker gives Democrats a true majority in the US Senate.

And while a 51–49 majority is minuscule, it’s still better than what Democrats had to deal with over the last two years, when they couldn’t afford to lose a single vote if they wanted to get anything done.

“No one senator has a veto,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said in a memo he sent Tuesday to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. “When you have 50 senators, any one senator can say, ‘I’m not voting for it unless I get this, this, or this.’ With 51, we can go bolder and quicker — to show Americans what Democrats stand for.”…”