Why the Budget Process Is Broken

Congress wrote the rules to restrain itself. Then it broke every one. Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. Congressional Republicans have begun the process of “reconciliation 3.0,” which, like reconciliation 1.0 (the 2025 tax cuts) and reconciliation 2.0 (new spending on immigrant deportation and border control), will notably expand budget deficits with barely any of the spending cut offsets that Republicans have long promised. Jessica Riedl is a contributing writer at The Dispatch and a fellow at the Brookings Institution and can be followed on Twitter at @JessicaBRiedl. More We Think You’d Like