The article discusses the challenge of naming a significant legislative package in Congress, suggesting terms like 'mega bill' and 'one big, beautiful bill,' the latter being a coined phrase by President Trump. The article explains the importance of budget reconciliation, which allows certain bills to bypass the Senate filibuster, enabling the majority to pass sweeping changes with a simple majority vote. It highlights how past presidents have successfully utilized reconciliation for major legislation, emphasizing its significance in the current political landscape.
It's even the proposed official name for the House legislation. (For those with tight space constraints, there's the casual acronym 'OBBB.') Members of Congress or staff can of course fall back on the bill's formal procedural description: budget reconciliation, or just 'reconciliation' for short.
Normally, the threat of a filibuster means bills need at least 60 votes to get through the Senate. But take away that threat and the majority party can enact...by a simple majority vote.
That has been crucial to enacting key programs for each of the past seven presidents, who have used reconciliation more than two dozen times over the half century since it was created.
Everything Trump has poured into this legislative potpourriâfrom tax and spending cuts to a big Pentagon boost and sprawling policy directivesâdepends on the package getting special consideration under special rules.
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