A lot could be said about this, but note how the GOP once again has no pretense to any form of responsible governing. In terms of the federal deficit—the thing they pretended to care about—this is a hodgepodge of bad policy ideas that will have a trivial impact on federal debt.
@maxkennerly Yes, but <10% of the Democratic Senate caucus wanted to *ensure* that a hodgepodge of bad policy ideas were implemented as part of a nonsensical scheme to monitor federal debt by holding the entire economy at gunpoint every few years. And so that is what we must do, and be grateful that it isn’t worse.