Ana Faguy BBC News, Washington DC Getty Images Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough may not be a household name, but the so-called referee of the Senate has found herself at the centre of a firestorm after she objected to several parts of US President Donald Trump’s mega-sized tax bill. The 1,000-page document, which he’s dubbed the...
Elizabeth Butler goes from one supermarket to the next in her hometown of Martinsburg, West Virginia, to ensure she gets the best price on each item on her grocery list. Along with 42 million Americans, she pays for those groceries with federal food subsides. That cash doesn’t cover the whole bill for her family of...
It’s good to be the queen, and when you are one who’s been appointed by a different king, you see things (D)ifferently. The Senate Parliamentarian is a lady and a lawyer named Elizabeth MacDonough. She’s been in the Parliamentarian’s office since 1999, so she has seen a lot of sturm und drang in her tenure....
The bill would gut billions of dollars in health care spending, and redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich. New polling data indicates that a majority of Americans are opposed to Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill, oftentimes referred to by President Donald Trump as the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” with only a quarter of voters viewing...
Josh Parry LGBT & Identity Reporter Josh Parry / BBC Frankie O’Reilly was nine-years-old when he met his future partner Georgie Long at primary school in Northern Ireland. The pair moved to London at the start of the 1980s, where Frankie worked as a traffic warden by day and a drag queen by night. By...
You have to hand it to the Democrats; they don’t believe in half measures when it comes to describing the parade of horribles that will result any time a Republican does anything. Oppose censorship? Fascist?! Close the border? Gestapo! Close down USAID? One hundred thousand people a month are already dying! Reduce the federal workforce?...
The Big Beautiful Bill has taken a lot of PR hits of late, including from me and Elon Musk. I love writing that line. It makes it sound like Elon Musk and I have similar influence, when everybody knows that I am the larger political force of the two. The criticisms all boil down to...
In a letter sent to Senate leaders on June 3, a team of health experts at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania warn that funding cuts included in the budget reconciliation package narrowly passed by House Republicans last month would lead to 51,000 more people dying across the United States each year. The package,...
The bromance between Trump and Elon Musk is far from over, but as I suggested the other day in a piece I wrote about Elon pulling back from politics, it’s clear that Musk is disappointed with how government works. Elon Musk: “Disappointed” Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Undermines Work Of DOGE https://t.co/GOUcAz225l — RCP Video (@rcpvideo)...
Watch: Elon Musk says he is “disappointed” with Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”, in interview with CBS Sunday Morning Elon Musk has criticised one of the signature policies of his close ally, US President Donald Trump. Last week, the US House of Representatives narrowly passed what Trump calls his “big, beautiful” bill, which includes multi-trillion dollar...
First, I have to say I was really surprised to see Fox’s senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram tweeting a little after five o’clock in the morning, that the House was just voting on the budget bill. Surely, I thought, this is a holdover from last night. But no. At the time, it said the Xweet...
I think the “Big Beautiful Bill” is a disgrace. It’s not that there is nothing that is good in it–there is much that is. It’s just that it doesn’t address the most pressing issues. It is the legislative equivalent of only ever serving your kids candy and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. They’ll be happy in...
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House Republicans have passed a sweeping multi-trillion dollar tax breaks package, a narrow victory for President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson after weeks of negotiations with conservative hold-outs. Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” passed with a vote of 215 votes to 214, with two Republicans joining Democrats to oppose it and one voting present....
What’s been the biggest surprise since the start of the year? Speaker Mike Johnson’s winning streak in the House has to be near the top, if not at the very top. Despite having one of the narrowest majorities in congressional history and perhaps the most fractious caucus ever, Johnson keeps piling up wins. With the...