This week, Congress handed Donald Trump’s request to claw again $9 billion in accredited federal spending, together with funding for international assist and public broadcasting. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined final night time to debate the president’s rescissions request—and what its approval could sign about future appropriations.
“What I feel will probably be remembered of this vote is it was a check case in whether or not” Republicans in Congress “may change the way in which the federal government appropriates cash,” Michael Scherer, a workers author at The Atlantic, mentioned final night time.
Traditionally, Scherer defined, even when one occasion controls each chambers of Congress, 60 votes are nonetheless required to move a finances via the Senate. “Which means you want a bipartisan course of,” he continued. However this differs from a rescissions request, which may move with solely 51 votes. The Trump administration’s objective, Scherer argued, is to interrupt away from a bipartisan budgeting course of “by making it a purely partisan” one. This, Scherer mentioned, may “change dramatically the entire approach the federal authorities’s been budgeted for years.”
Becoming a member of the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to debate this and extra: Leigh Ann Caldwell, the chief Washington correspondent at Puck; Stephen Hayes, the editor of The Dispatch, Meridith McGraw, a White Home reporter at The Wall Road Journal; and Michael Scherer, a workers author at The Atlantic.
Watch the total episode right here.
