Dems Wouldn't 'Ignore' Parliamentarian to Raise Minimum Wage, But GOP Plans to for Massive Tax Giveaway to the Rich | Common Dreams
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GOP lawmakers are planning to ignore Senate rules to give the wealthy trillions in tax cuts.

Schumer breaks news to Booker on Senate floor that Republicans are planning to sidestep parliamentarian on current policy.

“They don’t care anymore about norms, about rules, and even about going nuclear,” he says

Booker says it’s “further breaking of the Senate”

“Next time around, there’s no going back now”

  • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    38·
    4 days ago

    You can do that???

    Theoretically, the Senate could overrule MacDonough or even fire her, though she is a respected nonpartisan figure who has worked under both Republican and Democratic majorities dating back to 2012. Ultimately, the same real-world arbiters of deficits and debt that may disregard “current policy” scoring would look very dimly on an open GOP revolt against the budget rules and their referee.

    So, yes, MacDonough’s decision is likely to be fateful. At stake is nothing less than Donald Trump’s whole legislative agenda.

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/senate-parliamentarian-could-derail-trumps-entire-agenda.html 9 hours ago

    how do these people wake up everyday and keep on thinking ‘yep I certainly have the intelligence and gumption to be speaking truth to power journalist’? lmao

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      30·
      3 days ago

      Also - the GOP already fired the parliamentarian at least once. They did so during the Dubya administration.

      MacDonough’s decision is likely to be fateful.

      There’s a much higher likelihood that Santa Claus and his flying reindeers are real.

      -–

      Holy mother of fuck. If the writer was a recent college grad nepobaby - I might overlook some of the stupidity. I, myself, was an idiot in my 20s. But the writer dipshit has been writing for pollitics for at least a decade.

      By Ed Kilgore, political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015

      I googled him. He’s gotta be at least ~60. Good grief.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        3 days ago

        If I was a political columnist and I was structurally held back from pointing out the obvious reality of how a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie worked for decades, I too would end up thinking the Parliamentarian mattered.