{"id":13072,"date":"2026-03-31T18:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13072"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:07:14","slug":"kennedy-urges-gop-to-use-budget-reconciliation-to-pass-save-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13072","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Urges GOP To Use Budget Reconciliation To Pass SAVE Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"67\" data-end=\"434\">Sen. John Kennedy is urging Republicans to stop relying on bipartisan negotiation and instead use <strong data-start=\"165\" data-end=\"190\">budget reconciliation<\/strong> to push the SAVE America Act through the Senate with a simple majority. Reconciliation allows certain bills to bypass the 60-vote filibuster, but it comes with strict limitations, enforced by the <strong data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"400\">Byrd Rule<\/strong> and the Senate parliamentarian.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"436\" data-end=\"778\">Kennedy\u2019s push is as much about <strong data-start=\"468\" data-end=\"486\">political will<\/strong> as procedure. He points to Democrats\u2019 aggressive use of reconciliation for bills like the American Rescue Plan as a model. The challenge is navigating the technical rules without losing key provisions, since anything violating budget constraints could be removed or kill the bill entirely.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"780\" data-end=\"1102\">If Republicans succeed, it could <strong data-start=\"813\" data-end=\"854\">reshape election law and Senate power<\/strong>. Failure, however, would be a public embarrassment. Kennedy frames this as a test of whether the Senate\u2019s traditional norms can survive a new era of procedural warfare, arguing that election integrity is worth pushing to the limits of the rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Sen. John Kennedy is urging Republicans to stop relying on bipartisan negotiation and instead use budget reconciliation to push the SAVE America Act through the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13072\" title=\"Kennedy Urges GOP To Use Budget Reconciliation To Pass SAVE Act\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13074,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072\/revisions\/13074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}