News Analysis The reconciliation process has been in the headlines for months as Democrats have moved ahead with the process to pass their expansive $3.5 trillion budget bill, a move that Republicans have strongly criticized. The process, while very powerful, must comply with a slew of rules and restrictions that normal legislation is not subject…
Manchin Says Dems Should Use Reconciliation to Raise Debt Limit, Countering Biden
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) on Monday went against party leadership and suggested that Democrats should use the reconciliation process to raise the debt limit as Republicans double down on their commitment to vote against any increase to government spending. Republicans, upset with Democrats’ partisan bills, have demanded that Democrats use the partisan reconciliation process…
Manchin Says Democrats Should Use Reconciliation to Raise Debt Limit, Countering Biden
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) on Monday went against party leadership and suggested that Democrats should use the reconciliation process to raise the debt limit as Republicans double down on their commitment to vote against any increase to government spending. Republicans, upset with Democrats’ partisan bills, have demanded that Democrats use the partisan reconciliation process…
McConnell and Graham Ask CBO ‘True Cost’ of Dem Reconciliation Bill
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have blasted Democrats’ spending plans and asked for information on the “true cost” of Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending bill in a letter sent to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Since its earliest stages, Republicans across both chambers of Congress have opposed the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion…
Manchin Indicates $1.5 Trillion Is Farthest He Will Go on Reconciliation
Since the earliest stages of the Democratic reconciliation bill, all eyes have been on Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a critical swing vote who could make or break Democratic plans. Manchin rejected the bill’s $3.5 trillion price tag, but the self-described “conservative Democrat” has since been tight-lipped on what price tag he would support. On Thursday,…
Pelosi Says Reconciliation Bill Is on Path to Pass, but Democrats Still Divided
After nearly two months of wrangling between Democratic moderates and progressives, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill is on a path to pass. At her weekly press conference, Pelosi said of the bill, “I’m only envisioning taking it up and winning it.” Currently, the bill is set…
Rebutting Bernie Sanders’s Argument in Favor of the $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Package
Commentary One underestimates Sen. Bernie Sanders’s at one’s own risk. Any politician able to win over presumably bright college students by telling them that he wants to get the money out of politics while at the same time offering to give them a free college education is unusually clever, perhaps mesmerizing. For those of you…
McConnell Predicts No GOP Backing for Debt Ceiling Hike, Says Democrats Should Instead Use Reconciliation
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) predicted on Tuesday that no Republicans would back a bill to raise the federal debt ceiling, and instead called for Democrats to include such a measure in a reconciliation package and pass it in what would almost certainly be a party-line vote. “I can’t imagine a single Republican in…
Schumer Begins Process to Pass Broad Infrastructure Package Through Reconciliation
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he will move ahead on Wednesday with the partisan process of reconciliation, which only requires 50 votes to pass the Democrats’ broad infrastructure package. He will be working with the Senate Budget Committee to push President Joe Biden’s American Jobs and Family Plans through the Senate with no…
Sen. Manchin Backs ‘Targeted’ Infrastructure Bill, Opposes Reconciliation
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Sunday said he would back passing a smaller infrastructure bill with bipartisan support in what appears to be opposition to President Joe Biden’s plan. In an interview with CNN, the Democratic senator said that he prefers a “more targeted” measure that would incorporate internet broadband, roads, and other traditional infrastructure needs….
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