bipartisan efforts
Both parties working
Bipartisan efforts are political initiatives that have support from both major parties—in American contexts, Democrats and Republicans alike.
The phrase implies cooperation across ideological lines, often invoked to suggest legitimacy or broad consensus: The bill passed thanks to bipartisan efforts.
Politicians frequently call for bipartisan efforts while blaming the other side for their absence.
- reaching across the aisleCooperating with political opponents
- mediationIntervention to resolve conflict
- mutual understandingShared agreement between parties
- compromiseAgreement through mutual sacrifice
- public forumsOpen spaces for discourse
negotiation · good faith · olive branch · town hall meetings · political alliances · reconciliation · working together · common ground · grassroots advocacy · conflict management · dispute resolution · peace talks · détente · arbitration · collective bargaining · bridge-building · consensus-building · building bridges
- reformreform movement, reform movements, reform party, reformer, reformist
- congressional hearingscommittee, confirmation hearings, subcommittee, legislative hearings, witnesses
- oversightoversight committees, oversight board, review, auditors, supervisor
- presidential documentsexecutive orders, proclamations, presidential decrees, memoranda, executive actions
bipartisan effortsunilateral action
partisan politics · one-party rule · partisan gridlock · party loyalty · political tribalism
bipartisan effortspartisan warfare
Irregular resistance combat
political polarization · hyperpartisanship · partisan conflict · political tribalism · filibustering
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