The provision was aimed at curbing nationwide injunctions imposed by judges that have blocked some high-profile Trump administration policies.
Senate Democrats forced the removal of a provision in Republicans’ sweeping domestic policy bill that sought to restrict the power of courts to block federal government policies with injunctions or restraining orders.
Democrats are challenging a broad range of provisions in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” for compliance with Senate budget rules that Republicans are relying on to bypass the 60-vote hurdle in the chamber to advance most legislation.
A Democratic aide on the Senate Budget Committee confirmed that Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, the in-house referee, ruled the provision did not comply with the “Byrd rule,” which says provisions must be directly related to taxes or spending.
I feel like they’re trying to remove a lot of the crazy stuff in this bill, so people will accept them voting for it when it’s just massive tax cuts for the rich and raising taxes for the rest of us.
There was an article during Obama’s years that showed the negotiation tactics of Republicans and the summary was exactly what you wrote: Republicans draft bills with shit that they know will anger Democrats, but they’ll use it to pass the other shit that they want to pass.
Democrats fall for it every fucking time.
The article went on to say that compromise occurs far more often on the conservative side more often than the liberal side, meaning that Democrats often will give up far more than Republicans will.
Well you say fall for it. I’d say participate in the performative theatre.
They might as well be wearing the stupid fucking hat.
The point of the crazy stuff in is so the tax cuts are not the crazy part in that context. They make that the easy target and make the Dems feel like they accomplished something and got some compromise when the GOP really got what they wanted in the end.
It’s like keeping a few weapons on you hidden badly so they don’t find the ones you hid well. Or when you send a movie to the MPAA for rating that you’re afraid will get the movie-killing NC-17 rating, so you intentionally seed the movie with even more gratuitous sex and violence so that you have something to cut to compromise with the MPAA and you end up with the movie and the rating you wanted in the first place.
Fun fact: If you’ve ever seen Sausage Party, that’s what the super long vulgar sex scene at the end was supposed to be. It was bait for the MPAA’s complaints so they could cut it to get the R rating they wanted. But the MPAA only came back with a single complaint, the Pita Bread’s (I believe?) pubic hair on his scrotum. So Seth Rogan said… “Oooookay!” Removed the pubes and released the movie with the rest of the sex scene intact. Cuz when are you ever going to have that chance again?
Look at that, actually politicking, never thought I’d see the day
This is all a distraction from the tax cuts for the rich that the democrats aren’t fighting against.
I commend the Dems for accomplishing something, but I feel like it will matter little for the near future. They’ve already been successfully dodging the courts or just not complying with almost no recourse.
There has been a ton done by this administration that was successfully and rightfully blocked by the courts. What have they been able to dodge? There was the Kilmar Abrego Garcia situation which they dragged their feet on, but that was eventually resolved too.
Well they’re still sending folks to CECOT, bringing us into yet another Middle East conflict, deploying state level military into their own state to run security for the feds, denying folks their rights all over the place, running illegal crypto scams, selling bribes, illegally firing federal workers, defunding Congress level agencies, the list goes on and on and on and on… The fact that the courts can just be ignored shows they have no real power and can be stepped on as Trump pleases.
