How does that work??
Sanders and King ‘caucus’ with the Democrats; Sienna now will not; so the Democratic Caucus has 50; the Republicans 49 and Sienna a ‘true’ independent.
It’s awful, but that is the way it works.
There will be more Republicans in the chamber than democrats in the new senate on day 1 and almost every other day of the session unless someone is missing on the R side.
On the D side; they still will have trouble getting things done when people like Feinstein can’t make it in to work.