June 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate Parliamentarian ruled Thursday that several key provisions from Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., on the Trump budget bill violate reconciliation process rules.
Reconciliation is a tool to limit debate and bypass filibuster in order to expedite a bill's passage.
Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough's ruling means core provisions of the bill must be removed to use reconciliation to pass the bill with a simple majority vote.
Among the pieces of the bill MacDonough disallowed were a $6.4 billion cut from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau budget that would zero-out all funding for that agency by reducing its maximum funding to 0% of the Federal Reserve's operating expenses.
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