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…”
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Rounds explains the challenges of using rescissions versus the appropriations process.
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