Senate Republicans are scrambling to resurrect President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which stalled Thursday after Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough rejected one of its biggest cost-cutting provisions.
The chamber’s referee ruled the Senate’s proposed cap on health care provider taxes violated the Byrd Rule, which governs what legislation can pass with a simple-majority and avoid a filibuster under budget reconciliation rules. The provision would cut hundreds of billions of dollars in federal Medicaid spending.
Imagine that.
