Mulvaney started out by saying that we need 60 votes in the Senate.
No thanks.
Change the rules, now. If they aren't going to change the rules now, what makes you think they will do it in September?
Mulvaney said a lot more than the 60 Votes in the Senate Comment.
Watch his entire presentation. If Obama had signed a CR before he left Office, we wouldn’t have gotten a thing until the new 2017-2018 Budget was presented.
I for one will wait to see if President Trump can get his Budget passed come October. I remember the Democrats didn’t even consider any of Obama’s Budgets.
It ain’t over until the Fat Lady Sings.
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
Did you really listen to Mulvaney or did you just look to find what you wanted to hear?
It is not the time to set up a major battle by going for a knock down drag out or shut down. That would derail the 2018 budget which will be Trump’s budget. Work on that started today. That is where Trump & his team want to concentrate their efforts. Time for the shutdown when 2018 budget is written & passage is at stake.
Just get rid of the two-track rule for filibusters, which allows a filibuster to persist while the Senate does other business.
If you remove that rule, Schmucky Schumer will have to stand in the well of the Senate with his allies and actually try to talk a bill or a CR to death, rather than simply raise a point of order while the Senate goes on to other business.
Will Schmucky want to stop a good CR with a talkity-talk filibuster? Maybe, but then the American people will finally see that it IS the Democrats shutting the government down!