MAGA supporters are outraged that the Senate parliamentarian is dictating what the Republican-controlled Senate may include in the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB). They’re correct and Majority Leader John Thune needs to somehow reconcile the problem.

Established by rules approved by two-thirds of the Senate, the parliamentarian is majority leader-appointed and is not filled by a sitting senator. The job description is to enforce Senate rules on Senate procedures in a non-partisan manner.

The current parliamentarian, Elizabeth Macdonough, was appointed in 2012 by then-Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat. She is not term limited and will serve until she steps down or is replaced by the majority leader. Her Democrat provenance is all well and good as long as she enforces Senate rules in a non-partisan way. But that is not........

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