Hunter

@Fiend "A minority government, minority cabinet or minority parliament is a cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament. At the current moment  at current point in time republicans have won 1/2 seats from Georgia so the republicans control 51/100 seats in the senate so they can permanently block bill's. Although this does not prevent president elect Joe Biden from signing executive orders and it does to count if a Republican votes democrat in a bill which would lead to a 50/50 vote and the vice president Kamala Harris will be the tie breaker vote.

 

@Fiend

To get any legislation or law passed you require both halves of congress (senate, and house) to vote a majority on it and the president must sign it. If the president does not sign it (aka vetoes the legislation) congress must have a super majority (2/3) to override that veto

So to get anything meaningful passed that may last generations into the future you need congress control or you need to compromise the legislation to the other side a bit.

One thing the executive branch can do, is executive orders. The president themselves can pass law and legislation.

Obama after attempting to go through congress used executive orders to pass some legislation. In 2016 Trump came in and made executive orders to undo Obama's executive orders, this went up to our highest court, the supreme court, and it was found that you can undo previous administrations' executive orders.

So with the Senate looking like it's under Republican control (these GA runoffs don't look good for Dems) Biden can pass executive orders, he can compromise, or he can wait for midterm senate seats (2022) to maybe flip blue.

Ah, so I was right. Pretty much the equivalent of minority governments. Thanks, lads.