Senate Parliamentarian Blocks GOP Medicaid Cuts, Blowing Hole in “Big Beautiful” Budget
Response from GOP is mixed, but the optics for passing look bleak
The Senate’s top procedural referee has just thrown a wrench into Republicans’ most ambitious legislative push since the Trump tax cuts. In a sweeping ruling on Wednesday night, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough struck down several core Medicaid provisions in the GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB), finding them in violation of the Byrd Rule…
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