Senate May Kill House GOP Pet Policy

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Senate May Kill House GOP Pet Policy

June 2, 2025 at 7:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 40 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/06/02/senate-may-kill-house-gop-pet-policy/


A provision buried in the Republicans “big, beautiful” tax bill that would limit courts’ ability to enforce nationwide injunctions is unlikely to make it through the Senate, the Washington Post reports.

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1. Sounds like the cuts are going thru so the wealthy can get additional tax reduction......

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3. You got that right!

The deficit it was created by giving tax breaks to the rich.

Go back to the 1950s taxes for the rich , get rid of the national debt and then give them a little tax cut

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2. This policy is not allowed under reconciliation

Unless the Senate kills the filibuster and go around the Senate Parliamentarian this provision is not allowed under reconciliation

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4. GOP Senators are NOT going to bypass the Senate Parliamentarian on trump's nasty big bill

The trump bill has a ton of provisions that are NOT proper under reconciliation rules. trump and others want the Senate republicans to not submit this bill to the Senate parliamentarian for review and instead pass the bill without complying with the reconciliation rules. For example the part of the trump bill that provides that the courts cannot enjoin trump if he violates the law. That provision is clearly void under the reconciliation rules.

I am happy to see that the Senate is NOT going to go around the Senate Parliamentarian because if the GOP pulls this stunt, then the Democrats would be free to also ignore the filibuster rules. Having to have the Senate Parliamentarian pass on this bill which should mean that good number of the provision in this bill will be deleted.

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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/02/congress/senate-parliamentarian-overrule-thune-00380848

Senate Majority Leader John Thune signaled Monday that Republicans won’t move to overrule the chamber’s parliamentarian during an upcoming debate on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

“We’re not going there,” Thune said when asked by reporters about overruling Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who will play a special role in vetting the bill for compliance with the strict Senate rules allowing Republicans to bypass a Democratic filibuster.

Senate staffers met with MacDonough during last week’s recess to vet the House-passed megabill and talk through their own ideas, conversations first reported by POLITICO. Thune said that committee staffers tasked with drafting the legislation will continue conferring with her this week and next week. At the end of the process, MacDonough will make rulings on whether various policies comply with the chamber’s rules.

The question about the fate of the parliamentarian comes after Senate Republicans sidestepped her in a recent fight to nix waivers allowing California to set its own emissions standards.

At least one of Thune’s members is already publicly floating that his party should be willing to directly overrule MacDonough on the megabill. In a tweet last month, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wrote on X that “disagreeing with the Senate parliamentarian may be warranted if the parliamentarian gives bad advice, and it’s wrong to suggest otherwise.”

Several significant pieces of the House-approved bill are at risk of falling out of the legislation as it moves through the Senate.

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5. House reconciliation bill provision that would bar states from regulating AI for ten years

This provision is clearly not permissible in reconciliation.

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There are a ton of provisions like this that need to be stripped from this bill