Great job there Americans and a special shout out to White gen-X’ers for cutting your own soon to be retirement.

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    You are referring to “reconciliation”, which cannot be filibustered.

    Reconciliation can be used for the regular budget, but changes to Social Security are explicitly prohibited.

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        The only way to gut Social Security unilaterally would be to nuke the filibuster, and Thune said he won’t do that.

        Probably because he knows that if he did, then the next time Democrats hold a trifecta they will use it to enact a far more progressive version of Social Security. And unilaterally gutting Social Security would very likely give Democrats that trifecta in 2028.

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      but changes to Social Security are explicitly prohibited

      Unless you ignore the parliamentarian. Which the GOP would never do.