On the recordJuly 9, 2025
If you do appropriations in the Senate, you have 60 votes to support it. If you do rescissions, you can take it back with 50, which then makes it tougher to get a bipartisan agreement on an appropriations package.
Mike Rounds: “If you do appropriations in the Senate, you have 60 votes to support it. If you do rescissions, you can take it back…”
Editor's note · Context
Rounds explains the challenges of using rescissions versus the appropriations process.
Share
More from Mike Rounds
Jul 16, 2026
His success in leadership roles at the SEC and DOJ is strong evidence of his ability to be an effective coordinator as the Director of National Intelligence.
Aug 13, 2026
Dismemberment abortions are among the most brutal methods of abortion, accounting for around 80% of second trimester abortions.
Jul 8, 2026
It is abundantly clear that Russia is not winning this war. … Putin is at his weakest position in years and real sustained pressure can finally bring this war to a close.
Other voices in this conversation
