Anything that does not directly impact the federal budget will be washed out of a reconciliation bill by the Senate Parliamentarian (sometimes called the Byrd Bath). Items that are merely tangential to the budget will most likely not qualify for reconciliation.
On the flip side of that, a point of order can be called and the Parliamentarian can be overridden by a simple majority. The Democrats tried this tactic to include a provision in a reconciliation bill. The provision would have increased the minimum wage, and the Parliamentarian said it didn’t qualify (not directly impacting the federal budget).
The vote to overrule her was where we saw Manchin begin his descent into insanity and Synema pull her cutesy thumbs-down, “nay” vote. While overrides are rarely attempted, I wouldn’t put it past the fascists.
See, I don’t trust them to honor the rules as long as chucking them gives them an opportunity/advantage. Prime example: The “McConnell Rule.” McConnell said that in a presidential election year, no appointments to the SCOTUS should be made until the public had a chance to make their “choice” known. Mitch the Bitch concocted this shit just to keep Obama from appointing a replacement for the dead scumbag, Antonin Scalia. He then promptly ditched his own rule when Ginsburg died, just before the ‘20 election. Another example: Chucklehead Grassley ditching the Senate Judiciary Committee’s “blue slip” tradition to prevent Democrats from blocking Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent’s craptacularly fascist and unqualified judicial nominations. With Durbin as chair under Biden, and there was talk of ditching the blue slips permanently, Chucklehead hypocritically screamed about scrapping rules as long as it was convenient for the Democrats.
I hate ‘em all.
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