The 119th Congress, so far, hasn’t provided many opportunities for the Problem Solvers Caucus to solve problems.
It’s not that the problem solvers don’t want to solve problems — or that there aren’t problems to solve. It’s that the style of substantive, bipartisan collaboration they’re trying to promote is nearly impossible while Republicans are advancing a partisan reconciliation package. And those partisan maneuvers can make things tense.
“Reconciliation is an inherently partisan process,” one Republican member of the caucus told NOTUS, requesting anonymity to be candid about group dynamics.