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Drafting a budget that reflects the terms of the debt ceiling deal and taking it through the legislative process would be following a budget process. This whole row kicked off because Gaetz and the Freedom Caucus didn't want to do that - it isn't clear from the press coverage how much of the issue is that they want even larger cuts than the ones Biden and McCarthy negotiated, and how much is that they want to use the budget process as a lever to change policy on other issues (like the Trump prosecutions and immigration enforcement) rather than to pass a budget that reflects their spending priorities. But in the FY 2024 budget cycle, the reason why the budget isn't the result of a budget process is because the Freedom Caucus don't want it to be.
that's not what was agreed to by McCarthy to win his speakership; he agreed to abandon CRs and Omnibus bills and have appropriations go through the normal process
not "a budget process," but the normal process described in the 1974? law which sets out how budgets will be passed
to win the speakership, McCarthy agreed to move 12 appropriations bills individually which would go through the "normal process" to pass bills
he agreed to give members 72 hours to read bills, he agreed to not put any bill which spends more than $100m to go on the suspension agenda which prohibits open amendment
there is a longer list of procedural changes which the caucus was able to extract out of McCarthy in order for him to get speakership, all of which reduce the power of the speaker and leadership
instead of doing that, McCarthy attempted to slam through a continuing resolution for 45 days, threw all of these procedure changes he promised out the window, had the CR back up to another holiday which would likely result in another omnibus bill and crunch down on his caucus essentially blackmailing them with shutdown
that failed, so he threw some opposition people from his caucus on the group who crafted the CR and they put in some funding they had whined about and attempted to pass it; that failed, so he joined Democrats in passing the CR over the objections of his own caucus after violating most of the promises he made to get speakership
as usual, press coverage is garbage with an agenda and you shouldn't rely on it for information about pretty much anything
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