

I agree that the process of shoehorning everything into one big bill is crazy, but it wouldn’t be as big of an issue without the filibuster. Then it would be possible to pass non-budget bills with a simple majority (50 votes) instead of needing a supermajority (60 votes) for everything.

I think it’s Paul Ryan. And center-right looks like Steve Scalise. So this is almost definitely a pic from the first half of Trump’s first term when Paul Ryan was still speaker of the house.