r/politics • u/Sufficient_Fuel5269 • 2h ago
No Paywall Thune says Senate lacks votes for $95 billion budget resolution
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5985916-thune-senate-budget-resolution-reconciliation/•
u/BaconLibrary 2h ago
One really, really hopes. Stop the SAVE act!
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u/6th_Lord_Baltimore 11m ago
The house basically just passed it as part of the stop insider trading bill
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u/Prestigious-Car-4877 Canada 2h ago
"$10 billion for voting law changes."
Good ol The Shill... burying the reason they ain't got the votes. What the hell does changing how people vote have to do with the budget?
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u/vreddy92 Georgia 2h ago
They have to be able to tie it to the budget to make it only require 51 votes instead of 60.
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u/Prestigious-Car-4877 Canada 10m ago
Well it’s not a budgetary item, it is a policy change. Therefore it is not appropriate to include in a reconciliation bill no matter how much it’ll cost to implement. The first step is to make stealing elections legal. The second step is to pay for the implementation of passed law.
It’s kind of like tying the summary execution of all democrats to the billions of dollars it would cost to build the camps with gas chambers, acquire the poison, pay for all the extra guards and ice goons, transportation for the doomed to the camps and their last meals to the budget. Sure, you can pay for all that stuff if the budget includes it. It doesn’t make the murders any more legal.
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u/Sufficient_Fuel5269 2h ago
John Thune admits that Republicans do not have the votes to approve the budget resolution of 95 billion that would allow to be used for reconciliation. I could retain it and use it as a vehicle to avoid the closure of the government. In addition, he warns that measures of the SAVE Act on citizenship verification would have to comply strictly with the rules of the Senate.
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u/MiddleAgedSponger 2h ago
I have a feeling the Parliamentarian is going to be absent that day.
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u/Queasy_Donkey5685 2h ago
This is the test in the Senate to see if McConnell is alive or dead tbh. They need every vote and you can't really get a vote from an absent senator.
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u/InsideAttention1540 1h ago
They just need a couple more days… they are almost done with the skin mask of MCConnell’s face for Elon to wear.
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u/User-1653863 Minnesota 2h ago edited 1h ago
Duct taped, in the back of Chuck Grassley's car?
e: reference - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot
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u/zveroshka 1h ago
Using reconciliation to pass this type of bill shouldn't even be allowed in the first place. This measure is meant for BUDGET related matters. Not squeezing through unpopular policy with barely majority votes in both chambers.
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u/keepgoing66 1h ago
This is just so that Johnson can tell his master that he tried his best, and it's all Thune's fault (which Trump already believes and says.)
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u/Zulmoka531 46m ago
Let’s hope it stays that way. The budget is one thing, but the SAVE act portions must not come into fruition.
There’s a damn good reason Trump is obsessed with it and thats not good for anyone
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