The Senate rule executor gave a great blow to the Senate Republicans on Thursday morning by ruling out a key provision of Medicaid in the Megabill that advances the legislative agenda of President Donald Trump is out of service.
The Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, discovered that a provision that is into account in the use of the states of the medical care provider by the states to help raise additional funds from Medicaid does not agree with the rules that govern a package such as the “Big Big Beaut bill law”, that senators are making changes as republicans work to comply with the bottom of the quarter Julio Trump’s passage deadline.
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Macdonough’s failure means that Senate Republicans will need to reorganize the provision or discard it completely if they want to advance when trying to approve the bill using only republican votes.
The ruling is a great setback for republican leadership, which is under pressure to quickly move to the Senate floor to meet the deadline of July. This ruling will require potentially important reworkings of the bill with relatively little time to achieve them.
