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by drdec 236 days ago
> Budgets in the US are supposed to be revenue neutral.

To clarify - budgets passed via the reconciliation are supposed to be revenue neutral. The reconciliation process takes away the Senate's filibuster. When the filibuster is in play, it effectively requires a 60-40 supermajority to pass anything.

(No this is not how the founders imagined the process going when they wrote the rules.)