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.
It’s like a crazy but organized game of ping pong
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?
Yeah the part that won’t be removed is the millions of people that not only lose insurance but then are BANNED from using the ACA so they are being made incapable of insuring themselves. Nothing says “We want you to die” like that.