A woman who could smash the “big beautiful account” Trump

Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonaf may not be a domestic name, but the so -called Senate referee was at the US Presidential President Donald Trump.

The document by the 1000 pages, which he dubbed the “great beautiful bill” will reduce the costs and extend tax reduction.

But Ms. McDonaf said some provisions violate the rules of the Senate, throwing billions of dollars in doubt.

Its conclusions also complicated Congress to adopt the bill by July 4 – a term set by the president himself.

Now some Republicans call on the Senate to ignore its recommendations – going against the long -standing tradition – or dismiss it.

Earlier this month of the House of Representatives narrowly passed A mass cost bill that included low -income health insurance program, food assistance reform, and the measure to stop tips and overtime.

Then this version went to the Senate, where both Republicans and Democrats wanted to make adjustments.

The US Senate has spent recent weeks, discussing changes and writing a new version of the bill.

Now the legislators are racing the clock to deliver the bill to the Trump table until July 4.

Republicans support most both in the ward and in the Senate, which should facilitate the adoption of the legislation. But the leadership in both chambers is struggling to get consensus on a number of provisions – especially in social programs such as Medicaid – from competing factions in the party.

The task of the Senate parliamentarian is to solve whether the bill on budget rules is in line with the bill.

Ms. McDonaf – the first woman to play this role since 2012. Prior to that, she spent 25 years as an employee of the Senate and worked at the Ministry of Justice.

While she was appointed former Senator -Democratic Senator Harry Reid, she served as a senate controlled by both Republicans and Democrats.

In 2021, many democratic legislators called on the Senate to cancel Ms McDonaf if she stated that the minimum wage could not be included at the time.

Earlier and earlier, people who hold the post of parliamentarian Senate were fired.

In 2001, the leader of the majority of the Senate at the time fired, and then the Senate Parliament Robert Golub, after one of the pigeon rulings by the bill, defeated by the Republicans.

According to her, a number of provisions of the republican senators proposed to violate Berd’s rule, which is the rule of 1985, adopted by the Senate, which states that “extraneous” provisions cannot be accepted for “reconciliation”.

The budget bill is a reconciliation bill, which means that it does not need 60 votes to accept the Senate. Bills on reconciliation tell the government how to spend money, not how to issue a policy, the Berd rule said.

From these rules, Republicans can avoid a democratic Philibuster by the bill and pass it with a simple majority.

But since Mrs. McDonaf studied the text, she found a number of places where the reconciliation bill tries to change the policy.

Among the provisions of the MS MacDonough opposed, this is a plan that would restrict the ability of the states to collect more federal financing Medicaid at the expense of taxes on healthcare provider and measures that would complicate the conclusions of contempt for Trump administration.

And more productions can come if it continues to study a large bill.

Some Republicans, like Senator Alabama Tommy Tuberville, are not satisfied with her decisions and went to her to dismiss her.

“Victory about the landslide of President Trump was a mandate of 77 million Americans,” he wrote on X on Thursday. “One great beautiful bill brings this mandate. The parliamentarian tries to blow up the president’s mandate and must be fired.”

Senator Kansas Roger Marshall called on his party to adopt a parliamentarian restriction.

In a social media report, he noted that the Senate parliamentarian was fired during reconciliation in 2001: “It is 2025 during reconciliation, and we need to fire the Senate again.”

Texas Senator John Corin said that Republicans should not allow an “unleashed Senate employee” to stop the party from adopting the bill.

Such a move from the Republicans can create a precedent for Democrats, however, whose past legislative priorities have also been thwarted by parliamentarians. When the party conducted the majority in 2022, they came in two votes from the cancellation of the rules of the Philibuster to accept the voting legislation – and to give or reject the parliamentarian will be another means to achieve a similar procedural goal.

But Senate Republican leader John Tun from Southern Dakota does not seem to agree with the calls to suppress her.

Thune, who is the main press -secretary of the party in the House, told reporters on the Capitolian hill on Thursday, which does not cancel Ms McDona.

Instead, he described the rulings of the Senate Judge as “speed”, and stated that his party had other options to reach the national budget cuts, namely rewriting the bill.

Earlier, Tun stated that the vote on the bill was expected on Friday, although it remains unclear whether the Republicans could agree to the bill on the transition to the floor for voting.

After the bill is adopted by the Senate, it returns to the House for approval. Some Republicans in the House of Representatives have already noted their dissatisfaction with the inscription of the Senate to the bill.

Once the bill passes both houses, it can go to Trump’s table.

Carolyn Levit, a White House press, said the Trump administration is holding on July 4.

“This is part of the process, it is part of the United States Senate’s internal work, but the president is unwavering when he sees this bill on his table here in the White House on Independence Day,” she said, citing parliament’s resolutions.

With additional reporting by Anthony Zurcher