Itching to win back their majority in 2024, House Democrats are picking their battles, going along with some of these GOP “gotcha bills” to avoid the attack ads.
First, it was a resolution denouncing violence against anti-abortion groups. Then it was a bill mandating health care providers give care to infants in the extraordinarily rare situation that a baby survives a failed abortion. Then it was a resolution “denouncing the horrors of socialism.” And a few days later, it was a bill to overturn a set of criminal justice reforms passed by the Washington, D.C., city council.
And yet, Democrats don’t expect the Republican-led efforts to stop anytime soon. Referendums and resolutions meant for little more than virtue signaling are easy for Speaker Kevin McCarthy to put on the floor, unite Republicans, and divide Democrats. And with a slim majority in the House, a Democratic Senate, and President Joe Biden in the White House, that’s mostly all Republicans can do.
For members like Rep. Becca Balint—a freshman Democrat who represents Vermont’s lone, heavily blue seat in the House—decisions on these sorts of messaging bills have been relatively simple. She knows her largely progressive base would support her voting against the D.C. crime bill, or a resolution vaguely denouncing socialism.
Rep. Don Beyer , another safe blue seat, said he also understands the political calculations some House Democrats are making as Republicans look for ways to plot against them. “In the opening weeks of the 118th Congress, we’ve seen the new Majority distract the American people rather than deliver for them. From fixating on socialism to vilifying women who seek essential reproductive health care, they continue to put forward numerous messaging bills because their Conference is too divided to advance substantive legislation,” Hoyer said.
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