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Jun 24, 2025 Senate Republicans manipulated the budget baseline to bypass the filibuster and pass tax cuts via reconciliation Tier 1 · Primary Economic Structure
Using a fictional accounting baseline to avoid the 60-vote threshold for tax legislation demonstrates selective application of procedural rules to favor a partisan priority.
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- Senate Republicans bypass filibuster to pass Trump tax cut extension via budget reconciliation manipulation — Senate Republicans voted 53–47 on June 24 to approve Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham's decision to manipulate the Congressional Budget Office's budget baseline calculation, allowing Trump's 2017 individual tax cuts to be included in a budget reconciliation bill without triggering the filibuster. Graham directed the CBO to assume the tax cuts would continue indefinitely even if the megabill did not pass, a fictional baseline that violates standard budget reconciliation rules. The Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough was not consulted, and Republicans avoided her formal determination that the provision would increase the deficit beyond the 10-year window and thus be ineligible for reconciliation.
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Week 23 – 2025-06-21–2025-06-27
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