Of course, political optics and pandering for votes. It is pretty "funny" how many bills passed the House in this session and stood zero chance in the Senate.
A few stood a small chance, some of course got upended by Manchin.
There was a pseudo-gun control bill that did get passed because both Houses worked together on it, which resulted of course in more of a rather pointless piece of legislation, in my view. They usually manage a budget bill often delayed with CRs.
I thought the Dems would at least undo some parts of the "Trump tax cuts", but they haven't even managed that.