If America is a ruled by a billionaire oligarchy, as I argued in a recent New Republic feature story (“How the Billionaires Took Over”), what will our billionaire overlords get out of the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill that narrowly cleared the Senate this week?

House Republicans could afford only three members to vote against a rule that would allow Donald Trump's budget bill to proceed to the next step in the voting process, but an unexpected fourth "no" vote has added an element of chaos to an already bizarre vote.