Should Congress Legalize Illegal Aliens Through a Budget Process? Consider These 7 Points

[Geee]

Heritage Foundation

Congressional Democrats are considering breaking budget rules to enact controversial changes to immigration law. 

President Joe Biden has endorsed using the so-called budget reconciliation process to enact his multitrillion spending agenda, which would allow Congress to pass spending and tax increases along party lines, bypassing the filibuster in the evenly divided Senate. 

But Democrats threaten to oppose any reconciliation bill that doesn’t include a special pathway to full citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants. 

However, these changes in immigration policy likely would run afoul of the rules that govern what lawmakers may include in a budget reconciliation bill. 

 

Here is a rundown of seven key facts and considerations.

1. What Is Budget Reconciliation?

The purpose of budget reconciliation is to achieve changes in federal spending or revenues by “reconciling” the outlays and revenues that the Treasury will make and receive over the next decade with levels proposed by the concurrent resolution on the budget.

To accomplish this goal, reconciliation provides a fast-track process that limits debate in the Senate, allowing a reconciliation bill to be passed with a simple majority vote without being subject to a supermajority threshold to overcome a filibuster.

However, reconciliation was not meant simply to be a means to bypass the filibuster in the Senate to enact controversial policy changes. As a trade-off for the expedited consideration of such changes, the contents of a reconciliation bill are limited. 

[Valin]

@Geee

 

Should we? Short Answer NO. Actually I was wrong it should be HO HELL NO!

[Valin]

49 minutes ago, Geee said:

Heritage Foundation

Congressional Democrats are considering breaking budget rules to enact controversial changes to immigration law. 

 

 

Never interfere with the enemy when they are doing something Stupid.