Biden is holding together the Democratic Party in Washington -- for now
By Gregory Krieg, CNN
Updated 11:03 AM ET, Sun August 29, 2021
CNN)Almost a year before Joe Biden was elected president, fellow Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez remarked in a New York Magazine profile that "in any other country," she and Biden "would not be in the same party."
"But in America," the New York Democrat added, with some resignation, "we are."
More than a year-and-a-half later, the comment -- which stirred up indignation at the time among some Democrats who viewed it as divisive -- has been largely forgotten amid a continuing pandemic and now the unfolding situation in Afghanistan. But the truth in her words does a lot to explain the challenges now facing Democratic lawmakers, who successfully walked a tightrope to legislative achievement with their initial Covid-19 "rescue" plan and are currently attempting another crossing as they negotiate the passage of a bipartisan infrastructure package alongside an even larger social spending bill.
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