Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told Newsmax on Tuesday that the reconciliation budget package being considered in the upper chamber “is getting worse at this point” after the Senate parliamentarian tossed out several provisions because they violated Senate rules.
Elizabeth MacDonough has been the Senate parliamentarian since 2012. MacDonough, an unelected official who advises senators on following the chamber’s rules, earlier this week determined that many provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act did not qualify for budget reconciliation.
“The Senate parliamentarian has this decision-making process they call the Byrd Rule, where a lot of things get excluded from the bill,” Paul told “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” referring to the rule established in the mid-1980s and named after its chief sponsor, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., in which provisions considered extraneous to fiscal matters require 60 votes to pass the Senate.
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