They’ve been doing nothing for decades.
Here's a list of the 250+ pieces of nothing that the 118th Congress passed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acts_of_the_118th_Un...
If you're going to reach for hyperbole, at least make it defensible.
> It has been called one of the least productive Congresses since 1951
Let’s not measure productivity in terms of count of bills passed like measuring output by lines of code.
Healthcare reform, SS reform, fiscal sustainability, electoral reform, climate, immigration, information environment, cybersecurity, how many of these pressing issues have been tackled and solved by congress?
"Least productive" != "nothing"
If language collapses into describing a different reality just because of the way someone feels, then communicating is going to be difficult.
But!
That isn't to say that after the gears grind, Congress doesn't complete important and essential work, even in toxic times.
The nihilism of a blatently false claim that Congress is doing nothing just feeds into 'so let someone else do it' fervor. Untrue memes can be dangerous.
Talking about it in abstract, to make it sound like the congress ia a monolith where all are ambivalent ... is part of the problem.