Never forget that on November 4th, Coons joined with the GOP to make automatic cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
A handful of Senate Democrats joined forces with Republicans last week to advance sweeping budget legislation that would establish an “automatic deficit-reduction process” that could trigger trillions of dollars in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and other social programs—and potentially hobble the agenda of the next president.
The Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act (S.2765), authored by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), passed out of the Senate Budget Committee on November 6. The legislation is co-sponsored by five members of the Senate Democratic caucus: Whitehouse, Mark Warner (Va.), Tim Kaine (Va.), Chris Coons (Del.), and Angus King (I-Maine).
For Coons and his Republican buddies, there is always plenty of money for wars – but never enough money to fund very successful social welfare programs.
It could trigger cuts to vital social programs, but this summary of the contents of S2765 doesn’t say that:Shown Here:
Reported to Senate (11/13/2019)
Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act
This bill makes several modifications to the federal budget process, including the procedures for considering congressional budget resolutions and adjusting the debt limit.
Among other modifications, the bill includes provisions that
require biennial congressional budget resolutions, instead of the annual budget resolutions required under current law;
retain the existing annual appropriations process;
require a budget resolution to specify a target for the ratio of the debt held by the public to the gross domestic product (GDP) for each year covered by the resolution;
require the debt-to-GDP target to be enforced using a reconciliation process that requires deficit reduction legislation to be considered using expedited legislative procedures;
allow a budget resolution to include the amount of tax expenditures;
provide for automatic adjustments of the debt limit and statutory discretionary spending limits to conform to the levels in the budget resolution;
modify the procedures for considering budget resolutions in the Senate;
allow budget resolutions that have bipartisan support and meet specified requirements to be considered in the Senate using expedited procedures;
modify and establish budget points of order that may be raised against legislation;
rename the Committee on the Budget of the Senate as the Committee on Fiscal Control and the Budget of the Senate; and
expand reporting requirements for congressional committees, the Office of Management and Budget, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Government Accountability Office.
I’d appreciate your explanation for your possible exaggeration of the outcome of this bill.
Chris Coons sucks, folks.
Also, he’s sad that all this “politics” is hurting his friendships.
https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1211311302725029889
Guy’s worth like 9 mil. Worried about his Republican friends. Fucking despicable.
Here is a summary of S 2765:Shown Here:
Reported to Senate (11/13/2019)
Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act
This bill makes several modifications to the federal budget process, including the procedures for considering congressional budget resolutions and adjusting the debt limit.
Among other modifications, the bill includes provisions that
require biennial congressional budget resolutions, instead of the annual budget resolutions required under current law;
retain the existing annual appropriations process;
require a budget resolution to specify a target for the ratio of the debt held by the public to the gross domestic product (GDP) for each year covered by the resolution;
require the debt-to-GDP target to be enforced using a reconciliation process that requires deficit reduction legislation to be considered using expedited legislative procedures;
allow a budget resolution to include the amount of tax expenditures;
provide for automatic adjustments of the debt limit and statutory discretionary spending limits to conform to the levels in the budget resolution;
modify the procedures for considering budget resolutions in the Senate;
allow budget resolutions that have bipartisan support and meet specified requirements to be considered in the Senate using expedited procedures;
modify and establish budget points of order that may be raised against legislation;
rename the Committee on the Budget of the Senate as the Committee on Fiscal Control and the Budget of the Senate; and
expand reporting requirements for congressional committees, the Office of Management and Budget, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Government Accountability Office.
How exactly does this pin future cuts to Medicare et al on Sen. Coons? Share your crystal ball with me.
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No one should be surprised at this point, Coons is perhaps the ultimate DINO in the senate, and don’t rule out the little fool voting against impeachment either. As for the famed “friendship” with the Republicans it’s more like fraternizing with the enemy.