MAGA supporters are outraged that the Senate parliamentarian is dictating what the Republican-controlled Senate may include in the Big Beautiful ...

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill blocking illegal immigrants ...

President Trump urged Senate Republicans on Sunday to overrule the chamber’s parliamentarian in order to pass key parts of ...

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has advised that some key money-saving policies couldn’t be included in Trump’s massive tax and domestic policy bill.

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough rules against the GOP on key provisions, and Republicans are furious ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is rebuffing an upswell in anger at the Senate’s parliamentarian after she dealt a blow to major elements of Republicans’ tax bill. It would be a mistake to ...

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) on Thursday called for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to fire Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough “ASAP,” hours after she delivered a major ruling ...

While she was appointed by former Democratic Senator Harry Reid, she has served Senates controlled by both ... Because of these rules, Republicans can avoid a Democratic filibuster on the bill and ...

MacDonough is an appointee of the late former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and formerly advised then-Vice President ... Proposals that MacDonough rules against would be subject to the ...

Key parts of the Senate budget proposal containing vast swathes of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda are on the chopping ...

The filibuster is fundamental to the protection of the minority’s right to debate and to offer amendments. This has made the Senate a unique body for more than 200 years.

Reid came out for killing the filibuster in 2019, arguing that it had outlived its usefulness and was suppressing the popular will. “The legislative filibuster is gone,” he told me that summer.