How Chuck Schumer Could Ram Through Democrats’ Inflation-Rocketing Build Back Bankrupt
By: Christopher Jacobs
July 18, 2022
Like the script from a cheesy Hollywood horror movie, it’s baaa-aack. Democrats’ multitrillion-dollar tax-and-spend spree Build Back Better, that is.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wants to try to ram through this inflation-accelerating spend-a-rama bill before Congress leaves for its August vacation. He may well need to rely on a copious bag of procedural tricks to do it. Consider just some of the gimmicks and shortcuts Democrats might use to get their way in the coming weeks.
Flip-Flopping on $5 Trillion in Spending
If Schumer wants to start jamming a reconciliation bill through the Senate, he must—repeat, must—start with the House-passed Build Back Bankrupt legislation. He would move that the Senate proceed to consider the legislation, then lay down a substitute amendment containing the text of any agreement he would reach among his Democratic colleague.
That process, necessary due to the procedural protections afforded a House-passed reconciliation measure, brings another twist. By definition, all 50 Senate Democrats must vote for Build Back Better—the “temporary” programs Democrats want to make permanent, leading to approximately $5 trillion in new spending over the next decade—right before they vote against it. To put it another way, considering any reconciliation legislation in the Senate will first require Democrats to claim ownership of each and every word of the 2,135-page bill.
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