MEDIA: Senate parliamentarian scraps GOP's Medicaid reforms in Trump's 'big beautiful bill'

H/T Breitbart Immigration's Elizabeth Weibel,
<URL:https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/30/senate-rejects-big-beautiful-bill-measure-to-remove-illegal-aliens-from-medicaid/>
| As Breitbart News reported, on Friday, Senate Parliamentarian
| Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that "various immigration enforcement
| policies cannot" be included in Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill, and
| that several "immigration enforcement and other provisions" would
| need to receive 60 votes in order to be included in the bill.
|
| This includes:
|
|     A mandatory minimum fee of $1,000 for anyone applying for asylum
|     A mandatory minimum fee of $100 to request continuance in
| immigration court
|     A mandatory minimum fee of $250 to apply for the diversity visa
| lottery, $400 to process diversity visa application
|     A $5,000 bond for sponsors of unaccompanied alien children
|     Language expanding expedited removal of criminal noncitizens
|
| MacDonough also "determined that some of the megabill's Medicaid
| provisions," would not be "eligible for approval via the simple-
| majority gambit," according to the New York Post.

see Lachlan Murdoch's guest blogger, Josh Christenson on whether
Donald Trump has ordered Susie Wiles to share with Trump's endorsed
successor (Peter Thiel's VP JD Vance? Norm Braman's Little Marco
Rubio? another GOP.COM striver for WhiteHouse.GOV with a billionaire
backer?) Trump's MAGA marketing research gathered by Wiles (and Bill
Stepien before her (and Brad Parscale before him)) and do legacy
American proles favor the Cheap Labor Lobby privatizing the profits
and socializing the costs of their importation of scab workers:
<URL:https://nypost.com/2025/06/26/us-news/senate-parliamentarian-scraps-gops-medicaid-reforms-in-big-beautiful-bill/>
| Thune, 64, has indicated in the past that ignoring the
| parliamentarian would be tantamount to abolishing the 60-vote
| filibuster, a feature that sets the upper chamber apart from the
| lower and provides a check for the party out of power.
|
| Vance, though president of the Senate, can't overrule the
| parliamentarian's decision outright either. Such an action would
| need 60 votes, an impossible outcome with the chamber currently
| split 53-47 in Republicans' favor.
|
| Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Budget
| Committee, celebrated the ruling in a statement, sharing other
| provisions that had been struck down by the upper chamber's referee.

Does Trump regret endorsing Mitch McConnell and what will be Anne
Manetas' NumbersUSA GPA for Thune's tenure as
RepublicanLeader.Senate.GOV?
<URL:https://grades.numbersusa.com/gradecard/742/career/>
John
groenveld@acm.org
--
"The increasingly clownish Marco Rubio is back with a new scheme to
flood the STEM fields with indentured servants. Keep in mind that
his political prospects took a nosedive after he backed the last
immigration scheme. Unless he is retarded, the guy has to know that
the public is overwhelmingly against this. Yet, here he is throwing
his career away for this cause. Even assuming he is getting bribed,
why take the risk? Rubio is a young man who could be president one
day. Why risk it all just for a few bucks and the pat on the head
from the ruling elites?" - The Z Man
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