Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republicans are united behind stopping President Biden’s agenda, saying 'one hundred percent of my focus is standing up to this administration'
. But they have rejected Mr. Biden’s more extensive spending plans.
Proposals supported by Mr. Biden on gun laws, voting rights and D.C. statehood have also drawn little GOP interest. They passed the House but are unlikely to progress in the Senate, where most legislation needs 60 votes to advance. Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote gives Democrats a narrow majority in the chamber, which is split 50-50 between both parties.
Mr. Biden, who represented Delaware for 36 years in the Senate, brushed aside Mr. McConnell’s comments, referring to a well-publicized remark Mr. McConnell made during the Obama administration: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” In those remarks, made before the 2010 midterm elections, Mr. McConnell also said he was willing to work with Mr. Obama if he met the GOP halfway.