Just sharing this. I was struggling with Trump's position on not wanting a debt ceiling passed. Had all negative thoughts. Is he planning to spend to the moon?
Then someone pointed out to me that every time Congress votes to raise the debt ceiling we get billions and billions of pork added to the bills.
Maybe I am just slow, and everyone else had this figured already.
Really I think this is all about getting two reconciliation bills done. Reconciliation is used when trying to pass budget legislation. It bypasses the Senate rules requiring a 60 vote supermajority. Punting the budget until after January 20th with this CR allows Trump the opportunity for two budgets in 2025 where reconciliation will be used. Everything else was noise (which far too many frogs fall for). This is where he'll strip all the pork and eliminate entire departments. I think this is why Trump shows such confidence in saying that Elon and DOGE will be done by Independence Day 2026.