Right now, the Senate Democratic caucus is 47 members strong — 45 Democrats and two independents. A Democratic president might have 46 liberal-to-left-wing votes for her agenda. Even without the filibuster, this agenda would rest with relatively conservative Democrats like Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. In this best-case scenario, the next Democratic president will have to work with a Senate that has bound itself by rules that preclude party-line legislation. For anything else — like immigration reform or climate legislation — he’d have to win six or seven conservative Republican votes.

Source: New York Times November 04, 2019 11:01 UTC