Surely I'm misunderstanding the budget process. Jamie points out how unusual it is for the majority party to need votes from the minority party to get the budget bills passed. Does this mean the normal procedure is to ignore the minority party? Or just that usually the majority can pass it on their own but that they usually get 'yeah' votes from the minority party, too?
Surely I'm misunderstanding the budget process. Jamie points out how unusual it is for the majority party to need votes from the minority party to get the budget bills passed. Does this mean the normal procedure is to ignore the minority party? Or just that usually the majority can pass it on their own but that they usually get 'yeah' votes from the minority party, too?
Often it is all done by the majority until there's a final deal by the appropriators. But the GOP is too divided to do that, so they need a lot of D votes
Jamie is correct. The "majority" party typically crafts budgets which include bipartisan features.
Unfortunately House rules (very much like a filibuster in the Senate) enable a group of extremists to block bipartisan features -- in this case Ukraine support and border issues -- to keep those hot-button subjects alive for the election.
Surely I'm misunderstanding the budget process. Jamie points out how unusual it is for the majority party to need votes from the minority party to get the budget bills passed. Does this mean the normal procedure is to ignore the minority party? Or just that usually the majority can pass it on their own but that they usually get 'yeah' votes from the minority party, too?
Often it is all done by the majority until there's a final deal by the appropriators. But the GOP is too divided to do that, so they need a lot of D votes
Jamie is correct. The "majority" party typically crafts budgets which include bipartisan features.
Unfortunately House rules (very much like a filibuster in the Senate) enable a group of extremists to block bipartisan features -- in this case Ukraine support and border issues -- to keep those hot-button subjects alive for the election.
Thanks for the replies. Confirms how insane government is.