Republicans retain control of House, Speaker Johnson's future uncertain
thehill.com

Republicans are projected to keep control of the House of Representatives, handing the party total control of Washington with former President Trump back in the White House in January.

Decision Desk HQ projected the GOP would hold the House by winning its 218th seat on Monday, the number needed for a majority in the lower chamber.

  • alcoholicornEnglish
    49·
    3 days ago

    The dems can filibuster anything except the budget reconciliation bill. The republicans can remove the filibuster with a simple majority vote.

    The republicans can put anything at all in the budget reconciliation, but the Senate parliamentarian can say no. The Senate majority leader can fire and appoint the Senate Parliamentarian at will.

    The Senate Parliamentarian also determines whether more than 1 budget reconciliation bill is allowed per year.

      • alcoholicornEnglish
        73·
        3 days ago

        The worst part is, last time republicans held both houses and the presidency, under bush, they removed the filibuster and replaced the Parliamentarian when he wouldn’t do what the republicans wanted.

        Then as soon as Obama got into power and democrats controlled everything, they put all those handicaps back on, gave the republicans half the discretionary budget (despite not needing any republican votes), and brought back Pay-go.

        It was explained at the time by west-wing brained liberals that the republicans would reciprocate and that this was somehow better than just passing the laws your constituents want without them. And if they didn’t, the republicans would be punished by voters for being so unreasonable. Instead of dem voters staying home in 2010 because they just saw their own representatives doing what the republicans wanted instead of what they elected them to do.

        And then we saw the same shit play out again between the 2020 and 2022 elections.

          • alcoholicornEnglish
            45·
            3 days ago

            The westwing nonsense about compromise and ineffectiveness being virtuous and the idea that “everyone votes for who they’re closest to ideologically, so the best strategy is to tack closer to your opponent” just won’t die, despite being proven wrong every single time for 30+ years.