Well, this is why something will will get done. But, you know, I think the political realities are that at the end of the day, the Democrats will come together and pass something.View on YouTube
Democrats did in fact unify to pass at least one substantial Biden agenda spending bill before the 2022 midterm elections (held on November 8, 2022).
Two major examples:
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Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) – a roughly $1.2 trillion infrastructure package with about $550 billion in new spending for transportation, broadband, energy, and other infrastructure – was passed by Congress and signed by President Biden on November 15, 2021, after the House agreed to the Senate’s version on November 5, 2021.(en.wikipedia.org) This was a core part of Biden’s economic agenda.
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Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) – a major budget reconciliation bill focused on climate, health care, and deficit reduction – was passed by the Senate on August 7, 2022 and by the House on August 12, 2022, and signed into law on August 16, 2022, all well before the November 2022 midterms, with every Democrat in both chambers voting for it and all Republicans voting against.(en.wikipedia.org) It has been widely described as a landmark Democratic legislative achievement that emerged from intra‑party negotiations over the earlier Build Back Better framework.
Given that at least one—and in practice, multiple—large spending bills central to Biden’s agenda were enacted prior to the 2022 midterms, and that Democrats ultimately unified to pass them despite earlier internal conflicts, Friedberg’s prediction is right.