Playbook: “The Senate parliamentarian’s ruling that the annual budget resolution can be revised to include new reconciliation instructions — think of it as a buy one, get one free to pass sweeping legislation by a simple majority — could have major implications for President Joe Biden’s first-year agenda.”
“If the annual budget resolution can be revised once, it can be revised again. So as the party in power could ‘theoretically use the tool as often as they want.’ The pressure on Biden to attract Republican votes is now diminished.”
“The expansion of reconciliation will have Democrats getting creative to push all sorts of stuff through the process (and Republicans, too, when they next have unified control of Congress and the White House). There’s already talk of doing a stand-alone Dreamers bill via reconciliation.”
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