Schumer breaks news to Booker on Senate floor that Republicans are planning to sidestep parliamentarian on current policy.

“They don’t care anymore about norms, about rules, and even about going nuclear,” he says

Booker says it’s “further breaking of the Senate”

“Next time around, there’s no going back now”

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[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 84 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

a party of clowns

"They found a way around the parliamentarian. They found a way around the rules of the Senate. They found a way around the ideals of reconciliation," Booker said of congressional Republicans. "They are deciding that the way we're gonna do this is break the Senate and make up our own rules. This is how they're gonna get a bill through that gives trillions [of] dollars of tax cuts to the wealthiest in our country who are doing very well."

While refusing to "hate on" wealthy Americans, Booker also had a message for them: "You don't need tax cuts, especially not that are gonna be given to you on the backs of the poor, on the backs of our elders, on the backs of our children, on the backs of expectant mothers, on the backs of my mom's, your mom's Social Security."

'They found a way around the parliamentarian. They found a way around the rules of the Senate. They found a way around the ideals of reconciliation' should be a site tagline

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 78 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My favorite part of this is that whenever anyone brought up the idea of “just ignore the parliamentarian” when Dems were in control, the response from the establishment was always, “we can’t do that, it would just give Republicans license to do the same.” And then the Republicans go ahead and do it anyways.

[–] goferking0 27 points 1 day ago

It's almost like it's obvious to anyone that the Republicans would do it just like they changed the rules for supreme court rules. And any other rule that gets in their way.

But it's not like the dems actually want to make progress so makes sense they'd ignore those facts

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