Republicans regaining control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections would put them in a position to check President Joe Biden, a Democrat, the top Republican in the Senate said Thursday. “What direction we take is largely going to be decided by the election in 2022,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. President Joe Biden vowed on the campaign trail to govern as a moderate but quickly moved away from that pledge, issuing a flurry of executive orders opposed by most Republicans and backing his party’s play in Congress to ram through a $1.9 trillion package that included COVID-19 relief with zero GOP support. McConnell said when he made remarks last year that he could guarantee Biden would be a moderate, he thought he would remain majority leader. Instead, Democrats won both Senate runoff elections in Georgia, …
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