Senate parliamentarian to allow additional budget legislation

[GMDino]

Infrastructure week is an actual thing under this administration.  Weird.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/big-win-democrats-senate-parliamentarian-230350152.html

Quote:Big win for Democrats: Senate parliamentarian to allow additional budget legislation to bypass potential GOP filibuster

Azmi Haroun
Mon, April 5, 2021, 7:03 PM·2 min read

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The Democratic-majority Senate, led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, will help to confirm President Joe Biden's nominees and to enact his agenda. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

• The Senate parliamentarian on Monday cleared the way for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to use reconciliation again.
• Reconciliation allows bills to bypass a potential GOP filibuster.
• This could have implications for President Joe Biden's infrastructure package.
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The Senate parliamentarian cleared the way for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to use reconciliation to pass an additional piece of legislation, allowing Democrats to bypass a potential GOP filibuster. The legislation can pass with standard majority votes, instead of two-thirds majority support in the Senate.


Schumer's spokesperson said in a statement that the development, "allows Democrats additional tools to improve the lives of Americans if Republican obstruction continues."

Schumer's policy aides had argued to Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough that revising the 2021 fiscal year budget could "trigger an additional set of reconciliation instructions," according to Axios. Essentially the move to revisit the 2021 Budget Resolution could spur additional opportunities to vote on budget-related legislation using the simple-majority vote process, with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaking vote.
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This could have implications for President Joe Biden's infrastructure package.

The move means that Schumer could pass Biden's $2.25 trillion jobs and infrastructure package through a revision of the 2021 Budget Resolution, a process that can also be used to pass the second half of the package, The Hill reported.

Schumer's reasoning is tied to Section 304 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, which relates to budget reconciliation through budget revision. The Senate Majority Leader's policy aides argued to the parliamentarian that Section 304 would create a window for using reconciliation an extra time in fiscal year 2021.

In October, the Senate will vote on the 2022 fiscal year budget, potentially presenting Democrats with another opportunity to use budget reconciliation, which by then, could be the third time the process would be used in a year.

There are, however, non-budget-related priorities for the Biden administration that could face stiff GOP resistance with no option for budget reconciliation, such as bills having to do with voting rights, the minimum wage, labor rights, and the Equality Act.

And Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia signaled he would not support any bills with no GOP support, nor would he support ending the filibuster, making the road without budget reconciliation trickier for Democrats.
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[Au165]

The issue is yet again going to be Manchin. He has already said a corporate tax increase to 28% is too large, which is laughable. He is pushing to meet at 25% and I am not sure some of the more hard-line members are going to settle on that.

[GMDino]

(04-06-2021, 08:05 AM)Au165 Wrote: The issue is yet again going to be Manchin. He has already said a corporate tax increase to 28% is too large, which is laughable. He is pushing to meet at 25% and I am not sure some of the more hard-line members are going to settle on that.

Given his family history that's not a surprise that he'd slide that way.

Hopefully there can be some kind of compromise since the gop won't ever agree to anything at all.

[Au165]

(04-06-2021, 10:18 AM)GMDino Wrote: Given his family history that's not a surprise that he'd slide that way.

Hopefully there can be some kind of compromise since the gop won't ever agree to anything at all.

Screw that, at this point, they should give Murkowski a sweetheart deal for her constituents to join them and knock Manchin down a notch. His head is getting a little too big and he needs to get checked a bit or this will be the next two years.

[GMDino]

Biden proposes a huge plan  to spur actual infrastructure repairs and upgrade, the gop says they won't support it.  No surprise.


But I also found this tweet interesting because DJT got/gets so much support from his fan base because of all he "did" and let's be honest, "Infrastructure Week" was as big a joke under the Trump admin as his healthcare plan than he never, ever, ever actually proposed.  And I don't remember her ever making an appearance talking about a plan or, well, anything.  Most of the videos I found were cabinet meetings and CPAC.

Elaine Chao was Transportation Secretary for 4 long agonizing years. I never once saw her interviewed on television of any kind. Ever.

Mayor Pete has been there for 2 months and I’ve seen him on Fox, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, The View and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Multiple times.

— Mo Latno Bill Phelan (@MoBill) April 9, 2021