Because the Republicans, even after the election, do not control the Senate.
Then how did they get Kavanaugh confirmed?
No filibuster for judicial nominations.
And yet the massive tax cut for corporations that Republicans swore would pay for itself but didn't....was passed by this same senate.
What, no filibuster for changes to the tax code either?
Correct. Maybe you should understand the workings of the Senate a bit better.
BTW...they have been paying for themselves.
Nice try.
May I suggest google and the search term, "When does the filibuster rule come into play in the US Senate".
Enjoy.
Republicans have repeatedly changed the rules for the things that are important to them. Like......tax cuts for the wealthy and supreme court nominees they think might attack abortion.
But they haven't been willing to do so for the wall.
And no, the tax cuts have not been paying for themselves. Our deficit is predictably expanding while virtually every federal revenue projection given to us by republicans on the tax cuts have been laughably failures. Even with a strong economy, actual revenue is off projections by about 200 billion dollars.
In 2015, when we saw comparable growth numbers......federal revenue increased by 7.5%. Yet this fiscal year, revenue is barely 0.4% higher. Revenue growth collapsed under the tax cut, a roughly 95% drop from a compariable growth year.
While the deficit ballooned by a third, now projected to be 1 Trillion a year by 2020. Says who? Says the CBO.
The federal deficit is now projected to top $1 trillion in 2018