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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRemember folks, if Schumer hadn't caved on the CR
Earlier this year, Repubs would have had to use reconciliation to pass it, and they would have done that as was reported.
But since he caved, they can pass this budget bill now with a simple majority in the Senate. Goodbye SNAP and Medicaid. Hello to another $4T in debt.

Bluestocking
(97 posts)If Americans had not put Republicans in charge of all branches of government last November none of this would be happening.
Mr.WeRP
(812 posts)Scrivener7
(55,791 posts)They wouldn't have.
But here we are now with a bill that takes away the courts' ability to charge people with contempt. It takes away any check or balance on this administration and its flying monkeys. It puts every citizen at risk of the jackbooted kidnappings we have been seeing. It will invalidate every right. And it will be passed with a simple majority.
This bill, if passed by that simple majority, will be the nail in our coffins.
murielm99
(31,961 posts)would not have closed?
Emile
(34,832 posts)from passing?
Autumn
(47,898 posts)hatrack
(62,539 posts)
Emile
(34,832 posts)Bobstandard
(1,895 posts)Emile
(34,832 posts)He'll speak of working with his "friends across the aisle" and how we all have to work together.
dalton99a
(88,651 posts)too paralyzed to speak except for the occasional whisper to the wind