No Labels boosters say 2025 will be the year of bipartisan cooperation, with resurgent energy and support from high-profile politicians. It’s just that after a year in which their own attempts at political nirvana fell flat, they don’t have the answers for what exactly bipartisan success will look like.
At the centrist group’s Power to the Middle conference in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Republicans and Democrats repeatedly referred to some of the contentious things to come — a one-seat GOP majority in the House and Democrats vowing to turn rightward on immigration, among others — as an opportunity for unprecedented bipartisan collaboration.
“I’m optimistic. I see in this administration an opportunity to pass a lot of policy proposals that we couldn’t get under a Democratic administration,” Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez said.