Unelected Official Targets Gun Owners, Private Schools In Latest Rejection of Trump Policies
Elizabeth Macdonough, a parliamentarian of the Senate, continues to search through the version of the Senate of the “Big, Beautiful” Bill and Fricke Provisions of President Donald Trump that she determined to violate the strict budgetary rules of the upper chamber.
MacDonough, an unadorned official with an excessive influence on the final form of the bill on tax and the historic immigration of the president, informed the Senate on Friday morning that the provisions eliminating a tax on firearms suppressors and the creation of a tax credit program for private schools of $ 4 billion must be revised or struck to adopt the Senate plan majority. So far, the decisions of the parliamentarian have rendered 52 sections of the initial bill bill have exasperated the conservative legislators of the GOP which have accused him of undermining the republican political objectives. (Related: the senator will burn the land against the bureaucrat not elected undermined Trump’s bill)
Congress Republicans use the so-called budgetary reconciliation process to adopt the president’s bill. The accelerated procedure allows the Senate Republicans to bypass democratic opposition by adopting budgetary legislation by a simple majority vote.
Washington, DC – June 25: The head of the majority of the American Senate John Thune (R -SD) speaks to journalists from the Capitol while the legislators work on the Big Beautiful Bill Act on June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
However, the provisions according to which Macdonough determines violating the budgetary rules of the Senate would be subject to a legislative threshold of 60 vote, effectively forcing the GOP senators to obtain democratic membership before these proposals can pass the upper chamber. Macdonough was appointed to his role in 2012 under the late former head of the majority of the Democratic Senate, Harry Reid.
Macdonough on Friday judged that a tax of $ 200 on the fire dealer violates the budgetary rules demanding that the provisions directly affect expenses and income and have little or no impact on the policy. The members of the Caucus of the Conservative Freedom Caucus notably pushed the tax reduction of the silencer within the framework of the bill adopted by the Chamber and the High Chamber kept the language in their proposal.
The Senate parliamentarian has also determined that a new tax credit program of several billion dollars seeking to finance private education scholarships does not comply with budgetary rules. Supporters of the measurement of the choice of pro-school presented the proposal as “revolution in the tax code” which would give millions of students across the country access to private and religious schools of their choice.
Macdonough also took a blow to the efforts of the Senate Republicans to protect certain religious educational establishments, such as Hillsdale College, their proposal to increase the tax rate on the annual yields of university endowments. This would probably force Hillsdale, a small Christian college of liberal arts favored by GOP legislators, to pay a more endowment tax alongside universities such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
The Senate Republicans say that they work with diligence to submit a revised language to Macdonough for examination concerning many sections of the bill it has struck. Macdonough has notably signed at least one revised provision on which it initially ruled: a proposal for the sharing of food aid costs which should allow taxpayers to save around 40 billion dollars over a decade.
The prospect that MacDonough could ultimately settle in favor of certain sections of the bill which she initially Nixées did not prevent certain GOP legislators from calling her evidence.
“We are doing more for illegal immigrants than for the Americans,” wrote the first Republican Senator in Alabama, the first GOP senator to call Macdonough’s dismissal, wrote in a press release on the X social media platform on Friday. “The question is … the parliamentary side of the awakened Senate with illegals or the American people ???”
The Tuberville position referred to a series of health care provisions limiting the access of illegal immigrants to Medicare and Medicaid that Macdonough judged Thursday in the Senate plan.
Thune has hitherto opposed the calls to win or shoot Macdonough while he seeks to vote on the Senate plan from the Senate on Saturday.
“”[T]The hat would not be a good option to make an invoice, “Thune told journalists on Thursday.
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