Asked if President Biden agrees with Sen. Joe Manchin that reconciliation should not be the “normal order” in the Senate, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the president would leave it up to Congress to decide.
Budget reconciliation is a process of passing certain budget-related measures with a simple majority rather than having to get 60 votes to break a filibuster. It was used to pass the latest $1.9T coronavirus relief bill, the American Jobs Plan, and will likely be used to pass the White House’s $2.2 trillion spending bill that includes infrastructure…
