Posted on 06/20/2025 8:31:11 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has ruled that several key pieces of the massive bill to implement President Trump’s agenda run afoul of the Byrd Rule and must be taken out of the package to allow it to pass with a simple majority vote on a special procedural fast track. The parliamentarian ruled against several provisions under the jurisdictions of the Senate committees on Banking, Environment and Public Works, and Armed Services.
These included a provision that would have placed a funding cap on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which would have cut $6.4 billion from the agency by reducing its maximum funding to zero percent of the Federal Reserve’s operating expenses. The creation of the CFPB was one of the central reforms of the Dodd-Frank Act that Democrats passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. She also ruled against language cutting $1.4 billion in costs by reducing the pay of Federal Reserve staff, cutting $293 million by reducing the Office of Financial Research funding and cutting $771 million by eliminating the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
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Senate Republicans will need to remove the provisions from the bill or otherwise would have to muster 60 voters to overcome a point of order against the bill. Senate Republicans hold a 53-47 seat majority.
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They can’t cut a single nickel, can they?
The parliamentarian has no official power and is only a suggestion, literally. They can ignore her if they so chose. There is no requirement to follow her wishes.
The majority can chose to decide for themselves and even remove that office if they so chose.
She is know to be a wildly liberal hack as it is. She was appointed by Harry Reid of all people!
Who elected the parliamentarian? She has no friggen power, How is the Byrd rule violated on a budget issue? Ignore this dem pig.
if shes a Reid appointment, why is she still there? (I know that is a question for Senate republicans)
this is reconciliation, not rescission. different rules for
each.
The Byrd rule, what a laugh. Named after a grand knight of the KKK and one of the most corrupt senators in US history. Dissolve the Byrd rule if possible.
This is why Rand Paul’s drama was simply drama.
The Senate has NEVER reduced spending.
That’s what I meant. Take it out out the reconciliation bill and move the cuts to the rescission bill
Et tu, Brutus?
got it.
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rules
or laws ?
just change the rules.
the left has made a profession of that . goose/gander
They don’t violate the Byrd rule. She should be removed as Parliamentarian because she fails to show the required expertise.
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