It isn't yet. It's what the parties have committed to for the next election.

Once they have a majority, I have a feeling they won't even pretend to have opposition.

All I'm saying is the whole story is more convenient than Jussie Smollet's lynching. It came out exactly when public sentiment was turning against women, hit only people who wouldn't lose elections from it and turned focus away from advancing feminism to immigrants just as a key moment approached.