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Please someone explain how there could be a gov shutdown when republicans control the senate and the house? But are blaming the Dems who are way in the minority??? (lemmy.world)
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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The budget can bypass the filibuster (for the most part). They would have to let the Democrats bs for 20 hrs and then it would only take 51 votes to pass the budget. (Or at least the majority of it that I know of). This is intentional, but if they are putting extraneous bologna in the bill, that would cause it to need 60 for those parts. But all of the budgetary needs should be 51

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is a rule that the reconciliation bill can pass on 51. But there are two main limits on reconciliation:

  1. Reconciliation has to be at least nominally about the budget, as you said, and

  2. Only one reconciliation bill per fiscal year.

The Republicans already shot their reconciliation shot with the BBB. They can't do it again until the next fiscal year (which arrives tomorrow, so they can get started).

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

2 isn't correct though, there is no limitations on the number of reconciliations that can be filed.

You can file one for every budget resolution made. Which being that this is a different resolution than the BBB which already passed, it has no ties or limitations to it

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

From The Wiki:

Congress can pass up to three reconciliation bills per year, with each bill addressing the major topics of reconciliation: revenue, spending, and the federal debt limit. However, if Congress passes a reconciliation bill affecting more than one of those topics, it cannot pass another reconciliation bill later in the year affecting one of the topics addressed by the previous reconciliation bill.[3] In practice, reconciliation bills have usually been passed once per year at most.[16]

Edit: Are you saying the Senate and House made two identical budget resolutions in this year? Or is it just that Senate Republicans don't want to blow reconciliation for the next year on what is probably mostly continuing resolution?

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

That information doesn't line up with History. When a second budget is drawn up in the same year, you can reconcile it.

Say 2021, budget passed in February, then the "Build Back Better Act" went to reconciliation in 2021 and failed.

But it didn't fail do to reconciliation limits, but rather votes