One Big Beautiful Bill on Target for July 4

The Senate majority leader can remove the Parliamentarian at any time but in practice it is not done because it’s a non-political position. To illustrate this MacDonough has served in the role since 2012. You haven’t illustrated that she’s done anything wrong other than follow the rules. For instance your citation of the 60 vote requirement is standard. You complain about the other party but it’s clear you don’t give a damn about our institutions and will break every tradition on the way to your desired outcome.

 

$3 trillion in additional debt, just to fund Trump's tax cuts for the rich.

Anyone who support this bill ought to be embarrassed.

 

No problem with tax cuts. Just need to value engineer spending to match. There's the fail.

 

Given my opinion on political rhetoric. Anything named a big beautiful bill can only result in a steaming pile of poo.

 

And possibly cut spending a bit more, in order to reduce the debt.

It's quite telling, but absolutely not surprising, that the biggest Trump supporter here gave you bacon. Clearly he feels that debt-increasing tax cuts are perfectly fine without spending cuts. I guess he and Trump just feel like we can deficit spend into perpetuity - let someone else pay the bills!! Freeloaders .....

 

How people don't see past this kind of performative nonsense is mind blowing. Same with how Faux News used to call themselves 'Fair and Balanced.' "Well gosh, it says 'Fair and Balanced' right there next to that there logo, so it must be!"

 

For you 'political animal' means not rubber stamping anything and everything Trump wants.

 

Will you get a tax cut?

 

This is a terrible bill and will be a huge burden on our debt going forward.

 

Please cite specific evidence that she is a “political animal.”

 

By "dems" you mean covid.

 

Oh, I'm not on the left either. See, I'm a realist. Both sides suck. Absolute garbage. Both pander and lie constantly. One side tries to have the moral "high ground", but both are responsible for our out of control debt. We need to have spending cuts across the board but neither side will do that. Sucks.

 

Reconciliation is a set of rules the senate created by itself for itself. They could easily decide to change those rules, or eliminate those rules, or eliminate the filibuster entirely. Or they can just choose to ignore the parliamentarian

The parliamentarian makes judgments on whether aspects of proposed bills adhere to those rules. At a simplistic level, the position decides whether provisions of the bill fit the primarily budgetary/ financial nature of the provision. So if the bill includes a provision to ban abortion, or legalize it, that clearly is not a budgetary provision. It isn’t at all a partisan position. If the current majority doesn’t like the rules they can change them.

Here are some of those provisions:

Senate parliamentarian’s no-go list: 12 pieces struck from Trump’s megabill

Pretty much all of those listed aren’t even close to being primarily budget related.

The reason why they typically don’t just fire the position or change the rules every few years is because they know sooner or later the other party will control the senate and will change it the other way.

 

His wife told him so.

 

Helped in part by Trump’s horrific Covid response. Dementia Don is just the lucky beneficiary that he got out of office before the economy tanked and people have amnesia about that time period and just remember things like cheap gas because nobody was traveling. Lol.