Senate Democrats have a warning for their Republican counterparts on Capitol Hill: If you go around the appropriations process and approve funding for parts of the Department of Homeland Security using a party-line budget process, we’ll do the same for our priorities once we’re back in power.
“We’ve warned them about that,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told NOTUS. “They should be on notice. That is opening the door big-time to doing that.”
“Once you have established a precedent, the other side is going to take a careful look and see if it benefits them,” added Sen. Dick Durbin, another senior appropriator.