When using bill reconciliation in order to avoid Senate filibusters to pass a budget, certain conditions must be met otherwise regular Senate rules and the need for 60 Senators to be onboard to avoid a filibuster come into play.
It's not cheating, it's playing by different rules to get most of what you want/need done and then sometimes those that played and gambled were intending to, or hoped to, make the changes later that require rules. Their hope is that 60+ Senators would be onboard for those changes because they (those that gambled and pushed the budget bill thru) managed to get what they wanted at the expense of #$%#ing something up that most others would then be willing to fix/address.
Agreed. If the members of the majority party can compromise within their single-party system, and play by certain rules, everyone else is powerless to amend or block the legislation.
It's not cheating, it's playing by different rules to get most of what you want/need done and then sometimes those that played and gambled were intending to, or hoped to, make the changes later that require rules. Their hope is that 60+ Senators would be onboard for those changes because they (those that gambled and pushed the budget bill thru) managed to get what they wanted at the expense of #$%#ing something up that most others would then be willing to fix/address.