Several Provisions Fail To Pass Muster With Senate Rules In 'big, Beautiful Bill'

Several provisions successful nan Senate GOP’s type of President Donald Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" person tally afoul of Senate rules and must beryllium stripped if Republicans want to walk nan package without nan thief of Democrats.

The measure is undergoing what’s called a "Byrd Bath," erstwhile nan parliamentarian meticulously combs done each conception of nan mammoth measure to find whether policies comport pinch nan Senate’s Byrd Rule.

The constituent of nan fund reconciliation process is to skirt nan Senate filibuster and walk a massive, partisan legislative package. But if provisions are near successful that neglect nan test, Senate Republicans will person to meet nan emblematic 60-vote threshold. Provisions that don’t walk muster tin still beryllium appealed, however.

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President Donald Trump speaks during an "Invest successful America" roundtable pinch business leaders astatine nan White House June 9, 2025, successful Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Senate Democrats vowed to usage nan Byrd Bath arsenic a cudgel against nan Senate GOP to inflict arsenic overmuch symptom arsenic imaginable and slow momentum arsenic Republicans unreserved to put nan colossal measure connected Trump's table by July 4. 

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., could besides overrule nan parliamentarian but has remained adamant he would not effort specified a move. 

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An amended type of nan House-passed Trump fund was voted connected astatine nan extremity of a marathon ballot bid successful nan Senate. (Reuters)

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough scrutinized 3 chunks of nan megabill from nan Senate Banking, Environment and Public Works and Armed Services committees and recovered galore policies that grounded to meet nan Byrd Rule’s requirements.

Among those was a proviso that would person eliminated backing for a target of nan GOP’s since its inception successful 2008, nan Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which would person efficaciously eliminated nan agency. Doing truthful besides would person slashed $6.4 cardinal successful spending.

Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott, R-S.C., said successful a connection he would "remain committed to cutting wasteful spending astatine nan CFPB and will proceed moving pinch nan Senate parliamentarian connected nan Committee’s provisions."

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U.S. Speaker of nan House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to reporters aft nan House narrowly passed a measure forwarding President Donald Trump's schedule astatine nan U.S. Capitol May 22, 2025, successful Washington, D.C.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Attempts to put guardrails connected nan $150 cardinal successful Defense Department funding baked into nan package besides grounded to walk muster. The connection would person required that Pentagon officials outline really nan money would beryllium spent by a definite deadline aliases spot nan backing reduced.

Other provisions connected nan chopping artifact see connection that trim $300 cardinal from nan Financial Research Fund and trim jobs and move nan Public Company Accounting Oversight Board nether nan umbrella of nan Securities and Exchange Commission, which would person saved astir $773 million.

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An effort to alteration nan salary schedule for Federal Reserve labor was besides nixed, which would person saved astir $1.4 billion.

Environmental standards and regulations group by nan Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act were besides wished to person tally afoul of nan Byrd Rule, including a repeal of tailpipe emissions standards for vehicles pinch a exemplary twelvemonth of 2027 and later.