cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49776822
The House voted 216-214 on a budget reconciliation framework that includes $10 billion worth of election-related grants over a 10-year period for coaxing states into adopting anti-voting measures like those in Trump’s pet proposal. The $95 billion package also includes funding for the Iran war and bailouts for farmers hurt by Trump’s tariffs.
It’s still unclear what will be in the final reconciliation bill; now that the budget resolution has been approved, individual House committees will go about drafting the legislation. The reconciliation process allows Senate Republicans to bypass the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold and pass legislation with a simple majority.
21 Comments
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 28d
This is really depressing. I thought it would get blocked in the senate.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 28d
This is the House. It hasn't gotten through the Senate.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 28d
Chuck Schumer is in charge of the Democratic caucus, it'll pass by one vote.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 28d
I know, but the senate won't need a super majority now, it'll probably pass.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 28d
The article is also saying it's still unlikely though:
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 28d
Well that's good news, I hope it doesn't get shoved through somehow. Orange man wants this so bad for a nefarious reason.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 28d
This bullshit is going to become law, isn't it
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 28d
It actively harms the American people while directly benefiting the elite, so yes.
homes@piefed.world · 5 pts · 28d
It doesn’t have enough votes to get through the Senate, thank goodness
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 27d
i believe the reconiliation bill doesnt need 60 senate votes, which is what the GOP/old guard DINO is hoping for.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 27d
they snuck in the save act, under the guise of the stock trading ban, which doesnt block the trading, because it allows the insider trading to sell it before it comes into effect.
bagsy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 28d
So if we can't vote, does that mean we don't have to pay taxes?
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 27d
If you don't pay your taxes, you go to a jail and all your shit is confiscated
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 27d
Also, slavery has always been legal in the US if you're convicted of a bad enough crime. Once they make poverty illegal, boom! Cheap labor
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 27d
wage slaves is just, outright slavery with extra steps.
007ace@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 28d
i think thats the ol' no taxation without representation language. But Im Canadian so I only know bits and pieces.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 27d
or go to jury duty, Voter rolls is one of the places they try to drag people to JD, i thinks thier primary source, followed by DMV driver/STATE ID.
a_good_hunter@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 28d
Fascists win!
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 28d
Should be pinned @TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 26d
Centrist democrats demonstrating once again that they're complicit with fascism.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 28d
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d
Is the parliamentarian just not going to gut it this time?