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.
This bullshit is going to become law, isn’t it
It actively harms the American people while directly benefiting the elite, so yes.
It doesn’t have enough votes to get through the Senate, thank goodness
i believe the reconiliation bill doesnt need 60 senate votes, which is what the GOP/old guard DINO is hoping for.
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.