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Welcome To Budget Thunderdome: Senate And Presidential Campaign Edition

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BuzzFeed - It's budget week in America: an insanely busy week of political, unlikely-to-pass votes. Here's your preview of 2016's TV ads. Saul Loeb / Getty WASHINGTON — Sometime this week, probably in the wee hours of Friday morning, the Senate will finally vote to begin the process of dismantling Obamacare, the first time the chamber will have done so. Because the procedural move is part of the nonbinding budget, President Obama will simply ignore Congress. But you'll see the vote again, when Republican senators run ads hailing their efforts to end Obamacare during their reelection campaigns. Welcome to budget week in the United States Senate, the busiest single week of the calendar year in which very little actually happens, but everything matters. "When Congress considers the budget, the House and Senate floors turn into political battlefields where amendments are used by both sides as weapons," said Ron Bonjean, a former top Republican leadership aide in both chambe

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