NEW: Senate GOP Discovers Spine – Puts Three Key Provisions Including Defunding of Medicare for Illegals Back In “Big Beautiful Bill” Following Parliamentarian Ruling
by Cullen Linebarger Jun. 29, 2025 12:45 pm317 Comments
Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the Senate GOP finally grew a spine and sent a message to the unelected bureaucrat trying to tear apart President Trump’s big, beautiful bill.
As TGP readers know, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough struck down several key features of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful bill,” on Thursday, including defunding of Medicaid for illegal aliens and defunding “gender-affirming care” under Medicaid and CHIP, citing the Byrd rule.
MacDonough also axed the Medicare Provider tax, which complicated the Senate GOP’s math on the spending cuts they wanted to use to help pass the legislation.
This was the second time MacDonough has removed key parts of Trump’s bill. As the Gateway Pundit reported, MacDonough last weekend struck down several GOP provisions in the bill by applying the ‘Byrd Rule.’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/new-senate-gop-discovers-spine-puts-three-key/
