German upper house of parliament OKs debt reform, half-trillion fund

The Bundesrat has 69 seats, so for a two-thirds majority they needed 46 votes. 52 voted in favour and the four remaining states (Brandenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia) abstained. I am kind of surprised that Bremen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern voted in favour, considering that Die Linke is part of the state government in both those states.

If the US Congress had to do this, it’d take 10 years. Unless it was the absolute worst legislation ever, then it’d take a couple of hours.

Extremely based.