“Beyond that, you’re saying that McConnell is going to refuse to back the President.”
McConnell has never backed this POTUS. He has worked tirelessly to undermine his agenda at every turn.
That will not change.
He’ll join with Schumer and declare the President’s actions a stunt meant to disrupt the nation.
And he’ll not let one single rescission hit the floor of the Senate for a vote. And Dim votes will back him.
Cloture will never come.
Well, now that you’ve made it perfectly clear that you want the GOP to fade away and die, I guess I couldn’t care less what you think will happen.
“And he’ll not let one single rescission hit the floor of the Senate for a vote.... Cloture will never come.”
2 USC 688 governs the procedures for the House and Senate. After 25 days can be made by one favoring the rescission bill, and only 20% of the members of the house involved (House or Senate) is needed for a motion to discharge from the assigned committee. Only 1 hour of debate in the house involved, without any motions to amend nor reconsider. After that at any time a motion can be made to consider the rescission bill in that house. Motion practice is strictly limited, appeals of procedural decisions to be decided without debate. Probably one avenue for the chair to control things, otherwise appears if only 20% want it considered, it will move to a vote. There is enough pressure on the House and Senate that rescission proposals should move - even though unsuccessful in the past, this is a different President with the power of the Tweet and who’s not afraid to use it.
Once discharged from committee, Cloture is not applicable. Senate debate is limited to 10 hours by 688(d)(1). House debate is limited to 2 hours (688(c)(2)).
Bottom line - as I read the statute, 20% of each house should get these requests to a vote. Time to force their hand and either approve of boondoggle spending, or at least through rescission eliminate the most egregious and reduce the debatable (e.g., cut Planned Parenthood funding by a substantial amount that could pass - say cut 30-50%).
Each Department should scrub its authorized funding for proposals to rescind. Problem of trying to conglomerate items too much is there is only one bite at this apple - if funds are made available based on rescission not being passed, no further proposal regarding rescinding those particular funds can be made again (i.e., if 50% cut fails, can’t go back and try for 30% cut)