Last night, the House passed the continuing resolution that would keep the government funded for a few months and suspend the debt ceiling through next December.
It is important to state from the outset that there are other people working on these pieces of legislation beside the Drama Group.
And Biden is not part of that group at all.
Biden is deluded if he thinks he has Congressional Dem majorities on his side in any fight. Purple and Red state Dems have to cater to Trump’s base.
No, they don’t. They have bought into that canard, but that isn’t really true.
Congressional Morass?
Last thing congress needs is more ass…
The politics of shutdown/debt ceiling fights usually do not favor the party that gets blamed for the shutdown. I wonder if the ability of the majority party to use reconciliation changes this significantly or whether that is inside baseball as far as most of the Country is concerned.
So you think those trump voters have rejected the child tax credit???
President Biden.
So, the reason Democrats can do Reconciliation twice this year is that the first time is for FY 2020, and then FY 2021.
But haven’t they already used one of those? If they push this through in the next 3 days w/out everything else, doesn’t that mean they’re done for the year, reconciliation-wise?
Yes, I believe that is the case.
Boy, this is all pretty frustrating.
Why do they need a tax credit, they’re all trying to kill their kids via exposure to COVID.
I think the two reconciliation bills are for FY 2021 and FY 2022, since FY 2020 is long since over. But otherwise you have it right. They get another one next year for FY 2023.
Why do they need a tax credit, they’re all trying to kill their kids via exposure to COVID
Money to pay hospital, funeral bills??
Even if those three vote for it, seven more Republicans would have to come out of the woodwork. It seems unlikely as of now — not least because Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is a defiant no.
GOP, yeah, if y’all could not just embrace the slogan of The Party of Fiscal Responsibility but also, you know, really lean in to it and put it into practice as a matter of governance? That’d be great.
This one is a freebie from the parliamentarian. It’s technically not its own reconciliation bill, it’s a modification of the one passed earlier this year.
So if this passes, they do still get one next year.
I believe they may be able to do a standalone debt limit reconciliation bill, since the other reconciliation bills don’t have anything about the debt limit in them. They’re only allowed to do one reconciliation bill per year for revenues, spending, and debt, but they can combine all those into one bill or deal with them separately. But this is just my understanding of it, the actual rules are so fiddly that there might be procedural reasons why a standalone debt limit reconciliation wouldn’t work.
Joe Manchin makes the rules, and everyone should just get used to it.
OT-lovely update to our continuing reckoning with slavery:
