Reeling from years of executive overreach and fiscal chaos, Congress passed a sweeping law intended to bring order and discipline to government spending.
I would be very interested to see whether a ditching of the reconciliation option would in fact return us to the old reality where negotiation across party lines was essential. But I can’t see either party working toward this goal. I would imagine a shift on this would require citizens to demand it, and that would require citizens to actually know about it. I’m dimly aware of it, thanks to commentators like you, and I suspect that puts me in a tiny group of outliers.
I would be very interested to see whether a ditching of the reconciliation option would in fact return us to the old reality where negotiation across party lines was essential. But I can’t see either party working toward this goal. I would imagine a shift on this would require citizens to demand it, and that would require citizens to actually know about it. I’m dimly aware of it, thanks to commentators like you, and I suspect that puts me in a tiny group of outliers.
Such a fantastic, succinct explanation of this convoluted process (and its drastic degradation). Might use this with my students...
Great to see you out here crushing it. Cheers.
Great article!
I wish we could have 12 bills but we seem so far away from that right now! I understand it better now though after the crasher.