{"id":10798,"date":"2025-06-30T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-republicans-reject-democrats-accounting-baseline-challenge\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:01:48","slug":"senate-republicans-reject-democrats-accounting-baseline-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-republicans-reject-democrats-accounting-baseline-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans reject Democrats’ accounting baseline challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Republicans batted down a Democratic challenge to the GOP\u2019s use of \u201ccurrent policy baseline<\/a>,\u201d which zeroes out the cost of $3.8 trillion of tax cut extensions in the GOP megabill<\/a>. The 53-47 vote approved the use of the maneuver along party lines.<\/p>\n

Senate Democrats initiated four parliamentary inquiries on Monday morning in an attempt to show that the tactic is akin to a nuclear option that would blow-up longstanding budget rules.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepublicans are doing something the Senate has never done before, deploying fake math, accounting gimmicks, to hide the true cost of the bill,\u201d Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/a> said on the floor. \u201cTo vote yes on this, make no mistake about it my colleagues, will in a dramatic way further erode the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Lindsay Graham<\/a> (R-S.C.) countered that he has the authority as Budget Committee chair to determine the budget baseline used to implement and score provisions in the sprawling border, energy and tax legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never felt better. I\u2019ve been wanting to do this for, like, a long time,\u201d Graham said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans batted down a Democratic challenge to the GOP\u2019s use of \u201ccurrent policy baseline,\u201d which zeroes out the cost of $3.8 trillion of tax cut extensions in the GOP megabill. The 53-47 vote approved the use of the maneuver along party lines. Senate Democrats initiated four parliamentary inquiries on Monday morning in an attempt to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}