I spoke to NPR’s Barbara Sprunt for an explainer on how reconciliation works and why it is the key to Trump’s agenda.
“It’s nice to have the Senate majority, and you get pretty titles and gavels, and you can nominally control the floor, but as Schoolhouse Rock! would tell us, unless you have 60 votes for most things, you can’t move forward,” said Liam Donovan, a political strategist.
“It’s become the preferred tool over the past 25 years in this modern, partisan political era,” said Donovan.
“The amendments that happen in the final legislative package are really important — you’re playing with live ammunition when you’re on that final stage of reconciliation,” said Donovan.