Lovely_sombrero [he/him]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • It would be cool if this was auto-sorted by new? Anyway;

    Senate votes 53-47 to adopt “current policy baseline” to treat $3.8 trillion in Trump tax cut extensions as costing $0. Every Republican votes YES. This hasn’t been used before in filibuster-proof process to meet targets, and will change how future Senate majorities use it.

    My understanding is that the budget passed through reconciliation CAN’T be filibustered as long as it is budget neutral. If parts of it aren’t budget neutral, they can be filibustered. The GOP Senate voted to declare that the $3.8 trillion that isn’t budget neutral actually is budget neutral. So instead of dealing with CBO scores and the Parliamentarian (and voting down their opinion pieces, something that the COULD do), they are just declaring that their bill meets the imaginary target and moving on. Like I always say, if you actually have 51 votes in the Senate, you can do anything you want.