[umanwizard]

You need 60/100 votes to control the senate, which they did not have, so no, they didn’t hold the senate.

[jkestner]

With a simple majority, they can change the rules of the Senate so that a simple majority will get a bill passed. The filibuster is not in the Constitution.

[daedrdev]

Manchin and Senna refused to do that, as the most conservative democrats in districts trump won by double digits. Thus they did not have the votes.

[lokar]

We are probably about to see that in action