That’s when Democrats’ expanded child tax credit expires anyway - and when lawmakers will really, truly be desperate to get home after months of protracted negotiations. While Democrats still sound bullish on closing out their social safety net and climate measure by Thanksgiving, 2022 may be the real hard deadline. That included holding a Saturday session during a driving snowstorm, the type of work that focuses lawmakers on getting out of Washington as soon as possible. But the better parallel to this year’s coal-lumped holiday season might be 2009, when then-Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) leveraged the holidays to pass the Affordable Care Act on Christmas Eve. Of course, last year’s Republican Senate was barely better - passing a spending deal in late December and having to work on New Year’s Day 2021 to finish the defense authorization bill.
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