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If you are going to make criticism, please make informed criticism

On the senate side they did challenge quite a bit as violations of the Byrd rule and got the parliamentarian to strike down some important parts of the bill. Provisions ranging from the attempts to limit court's abilities to hold people in contempt (pretty important one) to anti-trans medicare provisions to the federal land sell off. Think it was something like 15 provisions struck down for violating the rules of reconciliation (the narrow exception to the filibuster used to pass budget bills).

The struck provisions didn't end up in the final passed bill. And note that article is about the house which that limitation does not apply to. The filibuster does not exist in the house. Debate is time limited as well. The only reason Jeffries was able to speak as long as he did is the convention to not count a party leader's speech as being longer than one minute. Republicans could have cut him off if they wanted to

EDIT: And again, this is not a defense of either chamber's leader in general, just that they actually did this time what people were calling on them to do earlier. If you want to shit on Schumer for helping passing the CR in March where he actually did give up real leverage from the filibuster (was not passed through reconciliation), then rightly go ahead. Just endlessly frustrated at the desire for a magic wand to fix it all that doesn't exist. Criticize where it counts or we're wasting our energy in the wrong places