There’s an old nursery rhyme that applies to the never-ending and rancorous fight in Washington to get Trump’s Big, Beautiful tax bill through Congress. It goes something like this:

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, what a wonderful world this would be.

IF only Republicans had replaced the Senate parliamentarian when they took majority control of the Senate in January, they could have attached at least $1 to $2 TRILLION more spending reductions and asset sales in the “reconciliation” bill.

I bet that you may not know who the Senate parliamentarian is, or even that this position exists.

But Elizabeth MacDonough does exist, and she’s become the most powerful person in Washington of late. She’s wreaking havoc on the Big Beautiful Tax Reconciliation Bill.

In the last several weeks MacDonough has ruled out some $2 trillion of budget savings and reforms – many of which are at the heart of the deficit reduction plan. She says they don’t comply with the esoteric budget process rules and can only be passed with a 60-vote Senate supermajority.

She ruled out the fix on Medicaid........

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