Once a rarely used procedural tactic, reconciliation allows a budget bill to get through with only a simple-majority vote. Then, this year, reconciliation 2.0 had no spending cuts, only $70 billion in new spending for Trump’s deportation machine. Still no spending cuts, or other forms of deficit reduction. Lo and behold, no offsets materialized, yet still somehow a path was found: Leadership promised that spending cuts would come in . Not to worry; presumably the next reconciliation bill will take care of it.