Carter’s last day in the office of the New York Observer before moving to Vanity Fair in 1992.Photo: Dafydd Jones
After the debacle over Senate passage of a spending bill earlier this month, it’s abundantly clear that congressional Democrats do not have the power to get in the way of Donald Trump’s aggressive 2025 plans. The administration and its own congressional allies now plan to bundle most of his legislative agenda in a budget-reconciliation bill that cannot be filibustered, meaning that so long as Republicans stick together, Democrats literally do not have the power to stop it. So far, fear of and loyalty to Trump have kept the GOP in harness on key House and Senate votes.
