Spencer Pratt praises fierce GOP foe in rare bipartisan turn: ‘Major props’

Spencer Pratt is not exactly who we'd have picked to hand out gold stars for bipartisanship, but here we are. He praised Adam Schiff, of all people, alongside Rick Scott, for actually getting something done for wildfire victims. That's the story. Not the reality-TV footnote, the fact that it took a "Hills" alum posting online to notice that two lawmakers from opposite ends of the spectrum passed a disaster tax relief bill named after a California congressman, and it barely made a ripple anywhere else.

That's the part worth sitting with. The Doug LaMalfa Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act exists because people who lost homes to fire need the tax code to not punish them further while they're trying to rebuild. It shouldn't take a celebrity shoutout for that to register as news. When Congress does something plain and useful, ordinary and unglamorous, it disappears into the noise. When it does something dumb or nasty, it's the lead story for a week. That imbalance shapes how people think about their government, and not for the better.

We'll give Schiff his due here, grudgingly and specifically, for this bill and nothing else. Rick Scott too. Disaster relief for wildfire survivors isn't a partisan trophy, it's basic governance, and it's a shame that basic governance now counts as a surprise worth "major props." Pratt's post reads almost like satire of how low the bar has fallen: two people we usually associate with fighting each other did their jobs, and that's the feel-good headline of the week.

If there's a lesson in this, it's not really about LaMalfa or Schiff or Scott. It's that Americans notice, and appreciate, when Washington acts like it remembers who it works for. More of that, less of the theater, and maybe the next bipartisan moment won't need a former reality star to point it out.