Reconciliation and rescission
The Republican Congress has quickly remade fiscal…
An episode of the The Science of Politics podcast, hosted by Niskanen Center, titled "Reconciliation and rescission" was published on July 23, 2025 and runs 54 minutes.
July 23, 2025 ·54m · The Science of Politics
Summary
The Republican Congress has quickly remade fiscal policy, with substantially more success than in Trump’s first term. How did they achieve so much more without compromise? How much will their routes around the filibuster matter for the decline of congressional appropriations? And are we setting up for a huge new step in presidential spending power: pocket rescissions? Molly Reynolds of the Brookings Institution is the expert on how Congress bends the rules of the filibuster to make use of partisan majorities. We discuss how much Congress is ceding power to the President and making tax and spending decisions even more partisan.