https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-republicans-plan-pass-trumps-agenda-through-reconciliation-2024-12-16/ WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - When President-elect Donald Trump's Republicans take control of the U.S. Congress next month, they plan to rely on a maneuver called "reconciliation" to achieve his ambitious tax-cutting and border-hardening goals over the opposition of Senate Democrats.
Here is an explanation of how that works:
WHAT IS RECONCILIATION?
The U.S. Senate's "filibuster" rule requires 60 votes in the 100-seat chamber to advance most legislation. Republicans will start next year with a 53-47 Senate majority, which would require seven Democrats to vote with them to pass bills.
However, reconciliation allows some tax and spending bills to pass with a simple majority vote. Republicans plan to use this process to increase spending on border security and cut taxes, and are currently deciding whether to handle them separately or roll them into one gigantic package.
Republicans will also control the House of Representatives by a 220-215 margin when all their seats are filled, but can pass legislation with a simple majority vote in that chamber.
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HOW CAN RECONCILIATION BE USED?
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As Washington's partisan divides have deepened, leading to congressional gridlock during periods of divided government, Republicans and Democrats have used reconciliation to push their agendas through.
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Once the reconciliation package passes both the House and the Senate, lawmakers would have to resolve any differences before sending it on to be signed into law by the president.
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>>1368769 Sounds good. Looking forward to it.
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look daddy, the emperor has no clothes Tue 17 Dec 2024 01:16:05 No. 1368795 Report Quoted By:
A Constitutional Convention? Some Democrats Fear It’s Coming.
https://dnyuz.com/2024/12/16/a-constitutional-convention-some-democrats-fear-its-coming/ this is how they give tRump another term and Barron a real Barron
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>>1368769 >reconciliation Isn't that the same legal bullshit mechanism they used to force obamacare through, with the "budget committee", though mental gymnastics, coming to the conclusion that the bill was budget-neutral?
Yeah, when the rules don't mean anything, they just don't mean anything. The idea that only Democrats would be able to force BS legislation through "reconciliation" was pretty naive, and here we are.
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>>1368799 Yes, and the most absurd thing about it is that the lawyer was allowed to literally contradict his own arguments about whether it was a tax or not to make two separate points and the supreme court even allowed.
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trump should just use the military to take power and rule directly like other great men. democracy has gotten nowhere. we can be a great nation like roman empire or russia but we settle for mediocre because we are too afraid of our shadows. trump is right man in right place to do right things and make america great.
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>>1368799 >Isn't that the same legal bullshit mechanism they used to force obamacare through its the same bullshit dems used to force basically everything through since obongo got elected. they even attempted to use it to push gun control but it got shot down. they also tried to expand it to being able to do 2 bills per year instead of one.
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Love it when tax cuts are paired with projects that will cost an exorbitant amount. But with Republicans in power the budget doesn't matter to them so there won't be any performative debt dances that shut down the government, just promises that things will work out once Democrats are back in power and they get the economy and budget functioning again until the process repeats.
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>>1368805 I’m a retribution kind of guy, I hope President Trump goes after every motherfcker who did not vote for saving America
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>>1368806 >Reconciliation was created by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and first used for a budget bill signed into law by Democratic President Jimmy Carter in 1980. >Congress used reconciliation to enact much of Republican President Ronald Reagan's economic agenda in the 1980s, which included tax cuts, military spending increases and cuts to domestic spending. >In the 1990s, it was used to pass bipartisan deals that raised revenue and cut spending, helping the federal government balance its budget at the turn of the century. Reconciliation was also used to overhaul welfare programs in 1996. Anonymous
>>1368814 >he was gullible enough to think Trump was going to save America Man the retribution against people like this is going to be severe.
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>>1368820 Let's see the coping when Trump sends my state's (Florida) national guard to invade and occupy your blue city.
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>>1368822 If you really think that's going to happen I have some NFTs to sell you. Also there is no such thing as a blue city. Republicans live there, too.
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>>1368813 If Trump gets new tax cuts they will be set to expire when he leaves office just like last time.
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>>1368825 >Trump leaving office lol
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>>1368813 obongo and biden both intentionally fucked up the economy
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>>1368819 I'm not saying they invented it under obongo. I'm pointing out most of what obongo and brandon passed was done via reconciliation and now dems are pretending its back because they are losing. its the same thing as the judicial filibuster being nuked. dems nuked it and then played retard when the GOP did the same thing back. Or how biden said he wouldn't confirm a judge for bush 1 and then dems acted like retards when it happened to them
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>>1368824 Republicans will be the ones joining the guard and pointing out the traitors who failed to support Trump.
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>>1368837 Trump is senile.
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>>1368838 I guarantee you within the next four years he's going to stroke out on-stage and have to be escorted off.
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>>1368844 Future President Vance appreciates the sentiment.
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>>1368830 GenXers should remember how the welfare system was gutted by Newt Gingrich with reconciliation.
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>>1368805 Why don't you go outside and let your balls freeze off Boris
