First Big GOP-Dem Reconciliation Showdown Set For Today from The Plum Line

Is the GOP's threat to scuttle reconciliation with a hailstorm of procedural maneuvers just empty bluster? Or does it have a chance of working?

It's going to get its first big test today. Staffers for the GOP and Dem Senate leadership are set to sit down this afternoon with the Senate parliamentarian and each make their case on the GOP's first effort to stick a stake in the heart of reconciliation, staffers say.

Specifically: GOP staffers will argue to the parliamentarian, Alan Frumin, that the so-called "Cadillac" tax would have an impact on Social Security revenues, a GOP aide says. They will further argue that this should trigger a so-called "point of order," which, under arcane Senate rules, would mean it would require a 60 vote threshold.

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