Schumer’s Infrastructure Path May Get Trickier After Ruling
- Democrats mull going it alone on Biden spending plan
- Senate rules set requirements for fast-track budget process
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A new ruling by the Senate parliamentarian could complicate the Democrats’ ability to use a fast-track budget process to enact President Joe Biden’s $4 trillion economic agenda without Republican support.
The Senate rules official said last Friday that the fast-track budget process, known as reconciliation, can be used more than once in each fiscal year by revising a budget outline -- but also that there are limits on how that can be used, according to people familiar with the matter.