There isn’t gonna be anymore ‘Big Beautiful Bill’s’ for Donald Trump coming out of a Congress Five months from Midterm Elections….
Immigration….
Ballroom….
Voter ID…
The above and a few other things simply cannot get around ther 60 vote US Senate rule that needs and won’t get Democratic support needed…
The Senate parliamentarian on Thursday ruled that several elements of the Republicans’ budget reconciliation packageto provide $70 billion in immigration enforcement funding failed to comply with the Byrd Rule and could subject the entire package to a 60-vote threshold if left in the bill.
The ruling is a setback for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), who wants to bring the legislation to the floor next week, that will require Republicans to redraft or drop some provisions of the package.
Democrats hailed the parliamentarian’s ruling as a big win, though a spokesperson for Thune downplayed it as simply requiring “technical fixes that were not unexpected.”
“As Senate Democrats warned time and time again, we were prepared to look at every line of this bill to ensure it was compliant with the Byrd Rule and the rules of the reconciliation process. While we expect Republicans to continue to do anything Trump asks, this is a win for the rule of law and to ensure children in immigration detention are protected by existing laws” Senate Budget Committee ranking member Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said in a statement.
Merkley said Democrats “are prepared to continue fighting this bill.”
The parliamentarian ruled against a section of the bill that would allow funds to be used for the initial screenings of unaccompanied migrant children.
The parliamentarian ruled that the legislation, as drafted, inappropriately funded some activities outside the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s jurisdiction.
The parliamentarian also ruled that the provision undermined decades-old protections for noncitizen children in the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), according to a summary of the ruling issued by Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee.
She also ruled that a section of the legislation that would provide another $2.5 billion in appropriations to immigration-related provisions of the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Homeland Security title undermined the Flores Settlement Agreement and TVPRA.
The Flores agreement is a binding federal consent decree that establishes standards for the detention, treatment and release of migrant minors who are apprehended by federal immigration officers.
The Byrd Rule prohibits provisions that make significant policy changes with only tangential impacts on the budget from being allowed to pass with simple-majority votes through the budget reconciliation process….
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The White House East Wing ballroom
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.), whose committee will mark up a portion of the Senate budget reconciliation bill to fund immigration enforcement operations, says there’s a good chance that the $1 billion in funding for the White House ballroom will be removed from the bill before it reaches the Senate floor.
Paul, who opposes spending taxpayer dollars on the ballroom, said the $1 billion provided to the Secret Service to provide security enhancements to the White House ballroom faces several major hurdles to remaining in the bill text.
The $1 billion for the ballroom was included in the portion of legislative text released last week by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Judiciary panel’s bill will be combined with text drafted by Paul’s Homeland Security Committee to produce the budget reconciliation package that will come to the Senate floor next week.
“I’m for still doing it with the private donations,” Paul said of how to pay for the White House ballroom and security enhancements associated with the project.
He said there are “a lot of questions” to address concerning whether the $1 billion ballroom provision will survive procedural objections…..
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