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The already narrowly divided Senate could see more gridlock in 2025, with several of the less partisan lawmakers from both sides of the aisle departing.
As Sens. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., each prepare to leave the Senate, questions loom over the upper chamber’s future ability to legislate across party lines.
“The Senate is trending to be much more of a hostile atmosphere as more moderate or independent-minded senators are retiring,” said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean, former top spokesperson to former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and former chief of staff of the Senate Republican Conference.
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Experts discussed the potential for the Senate to become even more gridlocked with moderate Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, Joe Manchin and Mitt Romney departing. (Getty Images/File)
“More deadlock and stalemate” is a likely outcome if the aforementioned lawmakers are succeeded by “more polarized and polarizing figures,” said Grant Reeher, a political science professor at Syracuse University.
Daniel Wirls, a politics professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said that “the number and degree of stalemates might be hard to predict.” He also said the moderate senators in each party “did not necessarily remedy or reduce the stalemates.”
“In some instances, they may have complicated them,” he added.
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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., defends the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster in a floor speech on Jan. 19, 2022. (U.S. Senate)
Romney’s office pointed Fox News Digital to past comments he made about the future of the Senate.
“We got a lot of stuff done on a bipartisan basis,” Romney told CNN following news in March that Sinema would not seek re-election. “That is really over. That is not going to keep happening.”
The Utah Republican reminisced last year about a…
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