Republicans Extract Wins on Critical Race Theory, Immigration, Out of Senate Budget FightSean Moran 11 Aug 2021
Senate Republicans extracted victories from Democrats on critical race theory, immigration, and defunding the police during Tuesday’s late-night budget resolution fight.
As the Senate prepared to vote on the budget resolution, conservatives introduced many amendments to the $3.5 trillion resolution to have some conservative wins from the mammoth bill. The series of amendments votes is often referred to as a “vote-a-rama,” which often bleeds into the late night.
The amendments attached to the budget resolution are “non-binding” but often serve as important rhetorical wins for those who can attach their proposal to the budget, and in this case, force Democrats to take tough votes.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) proposed an amendment to prevent Democrats’ raising of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction that mainly benefits wealthy blue states.
Grassley called Democrats hypocrites for proposing “tax cuts for the wealthy” and making the tax code less progressive. The Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act put limitations on the SALT tax deduction to pay for the bill’s tax cuts.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) proposed an amendment, which passed unanimously, that would reduce or eliminate federal funding for any local government that defunds the police.
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