Fewer than 75 days into his second term, President Barack Obama already seems resigned to the reality that big chunks of his second-term agenda will die without Nancy Pelosi holding the speaker’s gavel.

In remarks at two fundraisers for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Wednesday night, Obama said he still hopes to achieve bipartisan action on an immigration overhaul, guns and the budget.

“We would like to see some governing done in Washington before the next election starts,” he said to laughter at one of the fundraisers, which combined raised $3.25 million.

But he balanced that with an acknowledgement that much of his agenda isn’t going anywhere as long as Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, runs the House.

“If we’re going to move forward on some of the other things I talked about in the State of the Union … then I’m going to need some more help in Congress,” he said, referring explicitly to climate change, his universal early childhood initiative and $2 trillion in infrastructure spending.