The Senate is about to “take a sledgehammer” to the bill that passed in the House, and that’s really good for two reasons:
- Some of House Republicans’ craziest and most dangerous provisions could be killed in the Senate — whether that’s due to the Senate’s complex reconciliation rules or to the many disagreements between hard-right House Republicans and vulnerable Senate Republicans.
- The bill needs to pass the House a second time, and every change in the Senate makes that so, so much harder. Speaker Mike Johnson spent weeks doling out concessions and striking delicate deals to earn the crucial YES votes he needed. Many of those are about to be smashed in the Senate, and his entire house of cards could collapse — dooming the bill entirely.
This week’s update on the Republican Tax Scam