Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again. So today, we're going to talk about

Senate Republicans saying no to the House budget resolution. As we have repeatedly talked about,

the budget reconciliation process is multi-step and complicated. It requires the House and the Senate to first agree on a budget

resolution. That's what the House adopted this week. The Senate had not agreed in advance to that

framework, even informally. It took less than 24 hours for it to become incredibly clear that when it comes to the question of the Senate

Republicans agreeing to the House framework, well, the short answer is likely no. Long answer is

heck no. That's actually a quote, except Senator John Kennedy didn't say heck. He used a different

word.

There are normally disagreements at this stage of the reconciliation process, but it's the nature

of the disagreements that will prove to be the most troubling.

Remember over in the House, the issue to getting it through were the fiscal hawk objections, who felt the services

cuts weren't deep enough and the tax cuts were too deep. They rightly said the plan being sold

to voters as something to help with the national debt adds to it, not reduces. Well, in the

Senate, a number of Republicans have publicly said,

they thought the services cuts went too deep, and the tax cuts didn't go far enough. Then,

the electoral concerns for senators are even sharper. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, who has been described as a progressive or a liberal

by exactly zero people over the course of his career, said he is, quote, not going to vote for

Medicaid cuts. Later, expanding on it and clarifying, he'd be okay with some administrative cuts, but nothing

that actually hits people.

Is that because Holly suddenly started leaning left?

No, of course not.

It's because he runs statewide, and millions of people in his state use the services

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