Senate parliamentarian knocks pieces out of Trump's megabill

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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.

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.

She ruled against the repeal of funding authorizations in the Inflation Reduction Act and the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s multipollutant emissions standards for light-duty and medium-duty vehicles for model years 2027 and later.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-parliamentarian-knocks-pieces-trump-123631061.html

[krawhitham]

1. They will override the parliamentarian and do what they want

And we will bitch and scream about it, while most of us wanted the Dems to do the same in 2021 (override the parliamentarian for $15 minimum wage)

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Majority leader Thune says he won't seek a vote to override. Nt

[In It to Win It]

3. ICYMI