Posted on 06/15/2021 10:25:40 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) plans to formally trigger the budget reconciliation process on Wednesday, setting Democrats up to ram the White House's American Jobs and Family Plans through the Senate via a simple majority vote in July.
Why it matters: Announcing this strategy now could be dangerous to the group of 20 bipartisan lawmakers trying to hash out a deal on the "hard" infrastructure portion of President Biden's package.
Some of the Republicans in the group may be less keen on continuing negotiations knowing they plan to force the more progressive parts of Biden's plan through a partisan process regardless of a deal.
It will also be harder to convince GOP senators on the outside to get on board with a potential compromise.
Driving the news: Schumer will convene a meeting Wednesday with all 11 Democratic members of the Senate Budget Committee and will urge them to have the budget resolution — what he's labeling a “Unity Budget” — ready to be presented to the conference in early July.
He hopes to pass it by the end of the month.
Schumer said he also plans to bring a scaled-down infrastructure package to the Senate floor in July under regular order.
Details: The resolution is expected to include clean energy tax incentives, clean vehicle rebates and money for farmers and manufacturers to put toward energy-saving measures, among other provisions, a senior Democratic aide said.
Biden's Family Plan — which includes increased childcare, expanded health care, free community college, and universal Pre-K — will also be in it.
"Schumer will say that the Families plan proposal from the President is essential to the Resolution, will not be supported by Republicans, and must be robustly funded in Reconciliation,"…
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How come "Lyin" Ryan and The Turtle didn't do anything like this back in 2017-2018?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Back then, the RATS ‘line in the sand’ was, for every dollar of increase in defense, had to have an equal amount in welfare spending. This year, the RATs welfare spending will be 10x the increase in defense…
Because they weren’t BRIBED to.
The Communist Purge Is Growing Exponentially & The Disgraceful Aamerican Sheeple Are Doing Nothing About It!
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
No biggie folks - the sooner this illegal and feckless Federal “government” meets its maker in insolvency the sooner we’ll get a Republic back. And yes it won’t be pretty but we passed the “fail-safe” line years back.
Failed governments are rarely, if ever, replaced by better, well-functioning governments.
There are reasons sub-Saharan Africa is a collection of bad countries and worse countries and this is one of them.
It used to be that any changes to the tax code enacted using budget reconciliation had to ‘sunset’ after a specific period of time. I think it’s 10-years, but I’m not certain. This is why the ‘Bush Tax Cuts’ expired after 10-years.
Plus, budget reconciliation is supposed to apply only to revenue and spending bills. We’ll see how/if any of this is enforced by the parliamentarian, if it comes to pass.
The dems are setting this up nicely for a republican president and majority in 2024, just like they did with ramming thru fed judges for Obama, it came back to bite them with Trump and all of his nominations for the courts
The dems are setting this up nicely for a republican president and majority in 2024, just like they did with ramming thru fed judges for Obama, it came back to bite them with Trump and all of his nominations for the courts
Not really. Dems are pivoting from much of their radical agenda with an eye towards the midterms. They are punting on court packing, statehood for DC/PR and HR1 in particular.
Seems like the best thing for any real Republican to do is to just walk out on the Democrat proposals without discussing them. The walkout would be about all the discussion needed.
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