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The looming 50-50 Senate, in which ties will be broken by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, has triggered much interest in the budget reconciliation process. Budget reconciliation has many complexities, but at its core it offers a tool for enacting legislation that would otherwise be unable to clear the Senate because of the 60-vote threshold needed to bring legislation to the floor. Some policy issues, such as taxes and changes to Medicare or Medicaid, fit squarely within the rules of reconciliation while others may be more suspect and vulnerable to parliamentary objections.
TALLAHASSEE – Florida lawmakers took their first look Wednesday at the financial wreckage left by the coronavirus pandemic, which has caused a $2 billion shortfall in next year’s budget and threatens spending on education, health care and other programs.
House Budget Chair Jay Trumbull, R-Panama City, grimly laid out the task facing the Legislature in crafting a $92-billion-plus spending plan for next year.
“We will be squeezing blood out of turnips,” Trumbull told the House Appropriations Committee.
The Legislature last dealt with budget matters in March, when the pandemic was just beginning.
Since then, the Republican-led House and Senate largely have turned all COVID-19 matters over to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has drawn plenty of heat for his leadership. But the governor has generally kept this year’s state spending plan in balance, helped by $1 billion in vetoes and $5.8 billion in federal CARES Act funding.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
The looming 50-50 Senate, in which ties will be broken by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, has triggered much interest in the budget reconciliation process. Budget reconciliation has many complexities, but at its core it offers a tool for enacting legislation that would otherwise be unable to clear the Senate because of the 60-vote threshold needed to bring legislation to the floor. Some policy issues, such as taxes and changes to Medicare or Medicaid, fit squarely within the rules of reconciliation while others may be more suspect and vulnerable to parliamentary objections.
In recent years, reconciliation has been the pathway used to enact or pursue highly partisan legislation, such as part of the package used to enact the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) during the early years of the Obama administration as well as the failed effort to repeal the ACA during the first year of the Trump administration. With a Democratic Senate
Former CBS3 anchor Jessica Dean will be joining CNN's Capitol Hill team as a correspondent on Jan. 20, 2021. Since joining CNN in 2018, Dean has served as a Washington correspondent and most recently covered President-elect Joe Biden's.presidential campaign.
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, appeared on 60 Minutes on Sunday
She told of her horror at the scenes on Wednesday unfurling around her
Pelosi became emotional recounting how her staff hid in the dark for two hours
A mob of Trump supporters, chanting her name, smashed the door to her office
Computers were stolen, a mirror smashed and glass strewn around her room
Pelosi was in a secure location at the time and did not realize the devastation
She told 60 Minutes Trump was a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president