Senate Parliamentarian Is Doing the Dems'
Bidding in Striking Major Portions of
'One Big Beautiful Bill'
Posted By: JoElla Bee, 6/23/2025 6:00:38 PM
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, a Harry Reid appointee with a selective interpretation of how the Byrd Rule can be applied to reconciliation bills, has been doing the bidding of the Democrats in ruling that major provisions of President Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill" are subject to the Byrd Rule and therefore are ineligible to be part of a reconciliation bill. That means that, according to MacDonough, those provisions have to go through the normal Senate process and need 60 votes for passage instead of a simple majority.
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