Perhaps pick a moderate republican and get Democrat votes?

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57. In other words, you can't back up your proposal

Here's a reality check: Nine republican members of Congress voted for the 1.7 trillion budget package. Of those nine, seven are not in the 118th Congress, having decided to retire or having been successfully primaried.

Fitzpatrick is one of the two remaining repubs who voted for the budget. The other is Womack of Arkansas, who is hardly a "moderate" (he voted to acquit Trump twice).

The republicans are acutely aware of what happened to their colleagues that broke from the rw orthodoxy. The idea that they would jump ship to support Fitzpatrick ignores that reality.

And I have no problem with Biden working with republicans when necessary for success. But you're mistaken to think that Biden regularly comprises with the foam at the mouth republicans -- and particularly with any House republicans.