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Watch'm. They'll find a way.
We're all about to learn the name of the new Manchin and Kristen Stewart or whatever her name is.
My hunch is that the Education Department will continue to exist but be hobbled by a cut of a horrible amount - say 25%. The dems say have created a "compromise" with Elon/Trump. They'll try to spin this awfulness as some kind of "win for education".
They can just end the filibuster and pass it in the Senate with a simple majority.
Yeah honestly I’m sick of journalists even mentioning the 60 votes thing as if it’s real. It’s journalistic malpractice. If you need 60 votes to do it one way but only 51 to do it another way you only need 51 votes to do the thing.
Reporting that way was cover when the democrats were in charge and it’s cope now.
That's literally called the nuclear option, though. It's only been used twice for carve outs on nominations, and using it again to allow for the shutdown of a federal department is about as serious of an escalation as you can get without tossing the filibuster entirely.
The only way I see it getting used is if the party in power is sure they can remain in power forever
Dems treat it as the “Nuclear Option” but that’s nonsense. It’s a painted line on the floor that can be ignored at any point and should’ve wiped up decades ago.
It's not just the Dems. If the GOP didn't care then why wasn't it done during either of the republican trifectas in the last 20 years, or right as the current one started?
Elected officials until the Tea Party started winning elections were all cut from the same norms worshipping cloth.
This new Congress is filled with ghouls that don't about silly procedural nonsense.
degrade it badly enough and they'll all agree it's worthless and should be scrapped
Normies will see it as useless while conveniently ignoring the fact that it has no funds, etc