Yesterday, the Senate passed the President's Big Bullshit Bill using a parliamentary process called "reconciliation." The advantage to reconciliation is a bill can be passed with a straight majority. It cannot be filibustered, so to pass it only needs 51 votes, not 60. Reconciliation is a special process that is reserved only for passing a budget, not bills to make substantive law or policy.
So it's funny that the New York Times headline calls this a "Policy Bill."
