Originally Posted by cmeow

Someone else also brought up a good point that the 2017 tax cuts were passed via Reconciliation. But the tax cuts were not bipartisan (NO democrat or independent voted for the tax cut). How was that able to pass? She's literally making up new Senate rules out of thin air with no precedent and it's ambiguous. Then adding those rules to the Byrd rule, which gives her and any Parliamentarian in the future more power out of thin air.

It is incredibly dangerous because other Parliamentarians in the future can make random rules too just because they want to and gridlock the Senate even more.

In fact, if the requirement is "bipartisan"ship for Reconciliation, then no Reconciliation bills will ever pass again in the future (and the 2017 tax cut wouldn't have passed). If there was bipartisanship you don't need Reconciliation in the first place you'd just pass the bill normally.

I was not expecting someone who's supposed to be non-political to make such a political move and just not a political move, a move that gave Parliamentarian way more power.