Thanks. It seems to me the situation should be reversed, since appropriations are spending reality, and the budget is make-believe. But there I go applying logic to a government dominated by liberals.
Well, the budget isn’t exactly make-believe if you consider that it deals with taxation. Which, logically, should be a lot more contentious than spending.
Thats a big reason for Reconciliation: preventing filibusters of new tax policy. And it was used to great effect to ram through one of the most significant tax policies in US history: Obamacare.