Democrats’ spending plans hit by reality check

The Senate Parliamentarian delivered some bad news to the Democrats this week – ruling that they could introduce another reconciliation to the current budget, which would allow them to pass more of President Joe Biden’s spending plans measures with a filibuster-proof simple majority. But she also ruled that any new reconciliation would first have to be approved by the Senate Budget Committee and, since that is split evenly 11-11, the Democrats are left in the hopeless position of trying to convince one of those 11 Republicans to switch sides.