Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has taken a chainsaw to the Republican reconciliation package, removing key provisions that would reduce Medicaid funding for illegal immigrants and so-called “gender-affirming care.” She further struck down attempts to defund sanctuary cities, among other GOP priorities in the bill.
Those cuts were not only the ideological driving force behind reconciliation, but they were also a significant part of trying to make the budget math work regarding future deficits. MacDonough was appointed by now-deceased Democrat Harry Reid in 2012 during his time as Senate Majority Leader. That’s justifiably leading to questions about her impartiality or lack thereof.
These latest “revisions” by MacDonough come on the heels of several she made earlier in the week that also weakened the bill, including stopping cuts to electric vehicle mandates and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Big Whoop D Do…..
Republicans went right around her and kept going right into vote a rama this morning.
My prediction – Signed by POTUS by the 4th.