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John Thune: “There's a procedure, a legislative procedure called budget…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Interview with Senator John Thune on Senate Leadership and Cabinet Appointments

Published | Video Starts at 05:17

And some of them deal with important issues like the southern border, which has been a disaster under the Biden Harris administration. So we're going to look at obviously with a unified control of the government. House, Senate and White House. There's a procedure, a legislative procedure called budget reconciliation that enables you to do some things that you otherwise probably wouldn't be able to do, at least not at 51 votes. At 51 votes. And I think what we would hope to do is see if there are ways in which we could achieve some of the president's objectives on the border as he takes some executive action. (05:17–05:28)

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Asserts that budget reconciliation allows certain legislative actions with a simple majority.

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