Budget Reconciliation is back on. The Senate voted Thursday night 52-48 to proceed with a framework for a government spending bill that can bypass both the 60-vote threshold to break a filibuster and any potential interference by the Senate parliamentarian.
Democrats were outraged and worked hard all day Friday and into Saturday morning to weigh it down with amendments. Alas, it was all for naught, as the Senate then voted 51-48 to pass the concurrent resolution early Saturday morning without a whopping 20 amendments that the opposition tried and failed to include. But if leftist lawmakers want to lay the blame somewhere, they need to look no further than their own side of the aisle.
Late Nights and Long Days
After Thursday’s mostly party-line vote, Senate Democrats – and Rand Paul of Kentucky, the only Republican to vote against moving…
