.MaddowBlog: The Senate parliamentarian has thrown a wrench into the Democrats' Build Back Better agenda, but the fight isn't over just yet.
Because the legislative process in Congress is effectively broken, lawmakers search in desperation for ways to advance key priorities. This is clearly the case with the White House's Build Back Better agenda, in which Democrats are scrambling to pack all kinds of priorities into a reconciliation bill, confident in the knowledge that there's no other way to actually pass bills.
In theory, Democrats could still pursue their pathway-to-citizenship goals through a separate bill, but such a proposal would inevitably fail in the Senate at the hands of a Republican filibuster, despite majority support in both chambers. But such political hardball would require unanimity among the Democratic conference, which clearly does not exist. For some Senate Democrats, MacDonough's conclusions are the final word on the subject, and her findings related to immigration effectively remove the provisions from the pending legislation.
Other Democratic senators, including California's Alex Padilla and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, also issued a joint statement saying they had prepared"an alternative proposal for the parliamentarian's consideration in the coming days."
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