Ultimately, Senate Democrats were able to remove the provision from the final bill by citing the «Byrd Rule,» a 1974 provision that allows senators to block legislation during the reconciliation process of negotiations on
budgetary matters between House and Senate if that legislation contains material deemed to be «extraneous» to the financial substance of the bill.
Unlike the fractious House Democratic caucus, which is riven with ideological divisions
between liberals and moderates, House Republicans have been united on
budgetary matters.