For years, Republicans, particularly on the conservative wing of the party, have complained bitterly about the congressional habit of packaging huge amounts of consequential legislation into giant “omnibus” bills hiding controversial provisions that members don’t have much of an opportunity to object to or even read. Demands for “a return to regular order,” a staple of tea-party-era conservative Republican rhetoric, meant ending the practice of Democratic and Republican congressional leaders cutting thousands of deals behind closed doors and then presenting members with no option but an up-or-down vote with terrible repercussions (e.g., a government shutdown) in the event of failure.

But the progress of Trump’s intensely partisan Big Beautiful Bill through Congress this year shows you d

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