It’s all just political theater. The republicans were never going to pass this. But agreeing beforehand on who gets to cast enough dissenting votes to approach the tiebreaker threshold lets the “moderate” R’s look good to their constituents for midterms.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2026
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