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Ideally, I'd love for Dems to just start taking credit for everything MAGA brags about. Since apparently the Republicans aren't in charge.
See this is what I don't understand. They need 7 more votes to enter a continuence, not a budget. If they wanted to re-open the government they could have actually wrote a budget, and reconciled that budget, using only 51 votes for all the portions closed down.. then argued about the portions they can't get passed (cutting health care). There is nothing that the Democrats can do to block an actual budget reconciliation being done.
Stop kicking the can down the road with a "continuence" and draw up a budget. This whole thing seems to me like they can't get Republicans to agree on a budget, to get 51 votes
Theres a distinction between a "fiscal budget" and a "spending bill" I guess.
The fiscal budget for the year has already been decided. There is no Fiscal Budget 2: Skidaddle Rougarou.
Both can be reconciled. Continuences can't be. Aka, they haven't made an finalized measure for this, and thus keep kicking it forward with continuences
Is there precedent for that?
SNAP, Medicare, Medicade, are all funded through standard budgets as far as I know. So precedent would be the Inflation Reduction Act.
That passed through reconciliation August 2022. I don't see how SNAP or Medical budgets could be stopped right now without having undergone a budget change.
You're right...
Maybe the GOP can't pass the Byrd test, lmao. Like an addict can't piss clean, a Republican can't lower the budget expenditure.