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In reality Biden and the moderate dems have negotiated against their own interests. They have made concessions and cuts when they did not have to do anything. This is a total and complete victory for the republicans.

I hear McCarthy has forced the Senate to require 75 votes for anything to pass. This is a soft coup. Too bad the dems tired their own hands. [/quote]

It's in the country's interest not to borrow trillions of dollars a year.  Dems should have done what GOP is doing now, when Trump was President.  But they just want more and more government.[/quote]

There is an annual budget process followed by multiple annual appropriations bills and periodic program authorization bills. Those are frequent opportunities to reassess and revise taxes and spending and needs and debt and anything else. Raising the debt ceiling is not a budget vote. It should not be controversial. It should be a unanimous vote with nothing else attached. Fight over appropriations in appropriations bills. [/quote]

The Democrats passed the budget in the lame duck, when Republicans were not in position to negotiate.  And of course when the appropriations bills come up(a process that hasn't been used in 15 years),  you will be complaining that they are shutting down the government rather than making a deal.[/quote]

Lame duck?  Is there a special rule that means certain budgets don't count?

Congress passed a budget.  Now it needs to honor that budget.  When the GOP passed the Trump tax cut, we didn't play this crap.[/quote]

These Republicans didn't pass that budget. [/quote]

Legislators don’t get to just ignore laws passed by previous Congresses. A budget is a law.

Or do you just love anarchy? [/quote]

Budgets are not enacted laws.[/quote]

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