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Unelected Official Targets Gun Owners, Private Schools In Latest Rejection of Trump Policies
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough continues to rummage through the Senate’s version of President Donald Trump’s ...
US Senate referee allows measure to slash CFPB budget, lawmakers say
The U.S. Senate's nonpartisan referee has allowed Republicans to proceed with a measure to slash funding for the government's ...
Meet the Senate parliamentarian, who is tying Republicans in knots over their tax bill
Elizabeth MacDonough was appointed to the role in 2012 by Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada, Senate majority leader at the time.
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Unelected Official Continues To Take Blowtorch To Trump’s Agenda
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, an unelected official with massive influence over the fate of President Donald ...
Senate GOP Tries to Figure Out a Medicaid-Slashing Fix to Comply with Parliamentarian
The wildly unpopular “Big Beautiful” reconciliation package has encountered possibly existential challenges, though Senate ...
As The Byrd Bath Continues, Here’s A Look At What Will Likely Be Out Of The One Big Beautiful Bill (Updated)
Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate Parliamentarian, has flagged a growing list of provisions that would be prohibited under the ...
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‘FIRE HER’: GOP Maj. Leader Thune run over by unknown, unelected bureaucrat gutting Big, Beautiful Bill
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has allowed Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough to run roughshod over him and ...
Meet the Senate parliamentarian, the official tying Republicans in knots over their tax bill
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., arrives to speak with reporters about the reconciliation process to advance ...
GOP races to revise megabill after Senate rulings
A Senate parliamentarian ruled that several changes to Medicaid included in Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" were not ...