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With House members scrambling to come to an agreement after the spending bill disasters, some are seeing the exercise as one that will help improve future endeavors.

Lawmakers rejected a short-term spending bill on Thursday night after an earlier behemoth continuing resolution was duly ditched amid an uproar. Amid the messy process and the heated negotiations, some substantive ideas have emerged from lawmakers that may pave the way for improvements.

“This isn’t complicated,” Rep. Thomas Massie wrote on X Thursday evening, proposing the idea that Utah Sen. Mike Lee found “Revolutionary!”

“Separate the bills and vote on them individually,” the Kentucky Republican continued, “one vote on the clean CR, one vote on the debt limit, one vote on disaster relief, one vote on farm bailouts.”

“Radical right? Individual bills for each issue,” he added.

This was an idea even Elon Musk, the incoming co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) reacted to online.

Massie reportedly “pitched” the idea to Speaker Mike Johnson and said, “It wasn’t rejected outright.”

Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett said he suggested the same proposal last week “and it’s still a great idea.”

Burchett also suggested a way to have accountability.

“No more multi-bill ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’” bills, said Rep. Cory Mills in a post on X. “Conservatives all agreed that single point bills through regular order must be returned.”

Lee also reportedly weighed in on the lack of time lawmakers are given to thoroughly examine a bill before voting.

“Here’s an idea: whenever congressional ‘leaders’ deprive their fellow lawmakers of a meaningful opportunity to read a bill *before* voting on it, we should immediately fire those leaders and elect new ones,” he posted on X.

“This trick has been used far too long. It’s time to bring it to an end,” he added.

“It is obviously meaningless to call our country a democracy if the elected leaders are unable to read legislation before voting!!” Musk responded.

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