Senate Republicans are shrugging off President Donald Trump’s demands to fire the chamber’s parliamentarian, a nonpartisan official refereeing which provisions of the GOP’s $70 billion immigration enforcement bill violate Senate rules.Trump made his latest case against Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, accusing her of a liberal bias on Wednesday. The criticism comes as MacDonough has determined that security funding for the White House complex, including the under-construction ballroom, failed to comply with reconciliation rules and would not be able to skirt a filibuster with the rest of the measure.“Over the years, she has been brutal to Republicans, but not so to the Dumocrats — So why has she not been replaced?” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “The Republicans play a very soft game compared to the Dumocrats.”
Senior Republicans were quick to reject the notion, a move they also shot down last year after provisions of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act were stricken as out of compliance.
“I do not support the firing of the parliamentarian,” Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins (R-ME), who is up for reelection, told the Washington Examiner. “She does an excellent job and applies the Senate rules fairly and in a nonpartisan way.”
