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It's a budget, he needs 50 votes and there's 53 senators with a R by their names...
If there's a shutdown it's cuz trump ordered it.
Schumer "negotiating" just makes it easier for idiots to blame it on Dems.
Mainstream media at large is acting like budget reconciliation isn't a thing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_Congress)
trump doesn't need a single D vote in the House or Senate to pass a budget, he just doesn't want to
This is a funding bill, which is different than the budget/reconciliation process. He needs 60 votes.
You think "budget reconciliation" which was literally invented to make sure a budget is passed...
Doesn't apply to the annual budget, which has been passed by budget reconciliation for like a decade straight?
Majority in House but 60 votes in Senate are needed to avoid a filibuster, which will require some Democrats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_Congress)
But I mean, I literally quoted it last time and you still somehow missed it, so i guess it's on me if I get the same result....
This is them passing the funding , it wouldn't be a reconciliation bill.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/budget-resolution-reconciliation-spending-bills-explainer
Did you and 14 other people just not read that?
It's literally about how budget reconciliation can only be used for budget related bills...
And the fucking annual budget is pretty obviously budget related
From the link I provided
My understanding is that the budget resolution needs to pass before there can be a reconciliation bill.
Either way, if it really just required 50 votes, they would have done it already.
That's about as wrong as you can be...
Budget reconciliation was invented specifically for the budget... The Byrd rule is what is (hypothetically) used to prevent it being used for non budgetary bills.
Like, it's impressive you're able to be so completely and utterly wrong about this, unfortunately a lot of people also don't understand. Most likely because you're all still just listening to CNN and other billionaire owned media conglomerates instead of just looking it up.
Newsflash:
Billionaires care more about money than people. They're fine with a government shutdown and trump as long as profits go up.
They will lie to you
Wasn't that what they passed in July?
All the more reason to use it once the new fiscal year starts....
If Schumer caves, they can abuse the rule and pass something 1000x times shittier under reconciliation.
They were able to pass that a few months ago, because they didn't use reconciliation for last year's budget, it was just a CR all year
Which is likely what will happen again, and why Schumer would be a giant fucking idiot to negotiate just so Republicans don't have to use it.
Like, good point, but it just brings us full circle.
Quick edit:
Because Senate can use reconciliation once a fiscal year
Is that simply a senate rule that can be bypassed with a simple majority?