President Joe Biden entered 2023 with a divided Congress and his fellow Democrats holding the narrowest of majorities in the Senate. And like recent predecessors who lost one-party control in midterm elections, Biden saw the average support rate for his position on votes in Congress drop last year, to 70.4 percent from 94.9 percent a year earlier, CQ Roll Call’s annual Vote Studies analysis found.
Within his own party, however, support for Biden’s position on votes was unchanged in the Senate. It dropped in the House with Republicans setting the floor agenda, but remained above rates set during President Barack Obama’s term.
Biden had an average support score among members of the Senate Democratic Caucus of 95 percent in 2023. That’s in line with previous years of his presidency and on par with the numbers attained by Obama when Democrats had the Senate majority and Republicans controlled the House.
