Senator demands parliamentarian’s firing over ruling on Medicaid for illegals
By George Caldwell, The Daily Signal
Tuberville: ‘WOKE’ staff member ‘who was appointed by Harry Reid and advised Al Gore, just STRUCK DOWN a provision BANNING illegals from stealing Medicaid from American citizens’
Sen. Tommy Tuberville called for the firing of the Senate parliamentarian Thursday over her ruling against a provision in the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act to prevent illegal aliens from accessing Medicaid.
“The WOKE Senate Parliamentarian, who was appointed by Harry Reid and advised Al Gore, just STRUCK DOWN a provision BANNING illegals from stealing Medicaid from American citizens,” wrote Tuberville, R-Ala., on the social media platform X.
The “big, beautiful bill,” as President Donald Trump calls it, would fulfill a number of campaign promises, such as extending his 2017 first-term tax cuts and funding border security.
Tuberville thinks the parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough—essentially the Senate’s rules arbiter—is taking a hatchet to the 10-year fiscal package.
“Unelected bureaucrats think they know better than U.S. congressmen who are elected BY THE PEOPLE. Her job is not to push a woke agenda. THE SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN SHOULD BE FIRED ASAP.”
MacDonough has the authority to decide whether or not provisions in the budget reconciliation process follow Senate rules.