This week, Congress adopted Donald Trump’s request to recover $ 9 billion in approved federal spending, including funding for foreign aid and public dissemination. Panelists on Washington week with the Atlantic joined last night to discuss the president’s request for involvement – and what his approval could point out the future credits.
“What I think you will remember this vote is that it was a test case to know if” the Republicans at the Congress “could change the way the government appropriates money”, Michael Scherer, editor at The Atlanticsaid last night.
Historically, Scherer explained, even when a party controls the two chambers of the congress, 60 votes are always required to spend a budget by the Senate. “It means you need a bipartite process,” he said. But that differs from a request for involvement, which cannot pass with only 51 votes. The objective of the Trump administration, argued Scherer, is to break with a bipartite budgeting process “by making it a purely partisan”. Scherer, said Scherer, could “considerably change the way the federal government has been budgeted for years”.
Join the editor -in -chief of The AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg, to discuss it and more: Leigh Ann Caldwell, the Washington chief correspondent at Puck; Stephen Hayes, the editor The dispatchMeritith McGraw, White House journalist in The Wall Street Journal; and Michael Scherer, editor The Atlantic.
Watch the full episode here.
