How is it possible that foreign aid and a TikTok bill are in the same bill. That to me sounds like having to vote to accept one thing but also another thing that is completely unrelated.
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The historical significance is pretty easy: you don’t have time to vote on every single thing a government decides on separately. So it is quite sensible to bundle together:
1) things that are related in topic
2) things that are bound to pass anyways where everyone thinks the vote is just a formality
Over time this became a tool to find coalitions. Say you need another 80 votes for your bill and 80 representatives agree to vote for it if your people vote for their bill in turn. So to make sure noone goes ‚psych you voted for line but i won’t vote for yours‘ you bundle em together.
From there on this tool got used in more and more cynical/strategic/obscure ways landing where we are today.
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