Stewart Verdery, who helped negotiate crime and gun legislation when he was a Senate leadership and Judiciary Committee counsel, argued that pressure from the president on Capitol Hill could be counterproductive.
“The Senate may not work as intended as much as it used to, but it still works best in cases where there is not a statutory deadline for action when a bipartisan group can find compromise without public badgering by a president,” said Verdery, the founder of Monument Advocacy.
“In 2022, a president pushing the other party to a deal creates a counter-reaction that is extremely counter-productive,” he added.
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