bipartisan discussions
Both-parties dialogue sessions
Bipartisan discussions are political negotiations or conversations involving both major parties—in American contexts, Democrats and Republicans.
The term implies cooperation across party lines on issues of shared concern: Bipartisan discussions on infrastructure funding stalled last week.
The phrase often appears in news coverage, sometimes skeptically, since such discussions frequently fail to produce agreement.
- common groundPoints of agreement
- reaching across the aisleCooperating with political opponents
- policy reformAmending governmental regulations
- compromiseAgreement through mutual sacrifice
- working togetherActing in concert
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bipartisan discussionspolitical warfare
Nonmilitary coercive statecraft
partisan gridlock · hyperpartisanship · obstructionism · political polarization · culture war
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Irregular resistance combat
obstructionism · stonewalling · filibustering · brinkmanship · hyperpartisanship
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