Sahil Kapur

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

Why is this important? The Senate presiding offer—which VP Harris can become whenever she wants to—has the power to rule in opposition to the parliamentarian and it’d take 60 votes to block the VP. In this case that’s 10 Democrats saying no, immigration should not be included. — PolitiTweet.org

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Flashback to July —> — PolitiTweet.org

.@JoeBiden calls for using reconciliation to pass immigration provisions: "We need to find pathways to citizenship.… https://t.co/bAbY16gyNf

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Now, to do that would be to effectively go nuclear. If there’s no nonpartisan referee on Byrd rule limits it needn’t exist—the party in power can do whatever it wants by simple majority vote in reconciliation. Biden-Harris could force that issue but there’s no sign they want to. — PolitiTweet.org

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