Yes, I thought all spending bills must originate in the house. Dems do as they please?
They can go first using a trick of a shell bill
The senate takes a dead bill from the house, amends the crud out of it in the form of a spending bill that looks nothing like what the house sent along, then they send it back to the house as amended.
It’s a dog and pony show. The bill originated in the house. It just had absolutely nothing to do with what was sent back. A real joke.
“Yes, I thought all spending bills must originate in the house. Dems do as they please?”
The Constitution, as written, is dead. We now have a living Constitution interpreted daily by federal judges and the Supreme Court. Legislation by Congress is being replaced by presidential “executive orders”, arbitrary regulations issued by the unelected and unaccountable permanent bureaucracy, and the edicts of appointed judges. Actual legislation by Congress is written by staffers working closely with special interests and activist groups. Bills run thousands of pages, are not read by the legislators before votes, and are passed at in the dead of the night or under some threat of a draconian government shutdown if not passed at the witching hour.
Our system of governance is broken and ignored.