NEWS in @PunchbowlNews this AM:
Senate Ds are now unlikely to try using the FY 2021 budget resolution to put together another reconciliation package, according to three sources close to the issue.
This is important because it tells us a lot about the Senate’s timing.
Senate Ds are now unlikely to try using the FY 2021 budget resolution to put together another reconciliation package, according to three sources close to the issue.
This is important because it tells us a lot about the Senate’s timing.
@PunchbowlNews If you remember, Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that Senate Democrats can use the same budget resolution to pass multiple majority-vote reconciliation packages, according to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) office.
@PunchbowlNews Dems used the FY 2021 budget resolution to pass the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan in March, and they could use it again, Democrats say.
@PunchbowlNews But senior Democrats privately don’t believe they can finish work on a second reconciliation package using the 2021 budget resolution by the end of the fiscal year, which is Sept. 30.
Senate Democrats instead will shift their focus to FY 2022. They can use that budget resolution multiple times as well, under MacDonough’s ruling, and they don’t have to worry about the Sept. 30 deadline, Democrats say.
But it also means the debate over infrastructure could drag well into the fall, which will put it on a collision path with the government funding and debt-limit skirmishes.
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