If the Republicans of Congress are able to pass the President or not Donald Trump’s The « great amount of law » of taxes and expenses can affect a person. It is not a swing vote. Not someone like Senator Rand Paul, R-KY, or Representative Thomas Massie, R-KY. But someone who probably never heard of talking.
After all, Washington is provided with power players. Mike Johnson House SpeakerR-la., The leader of the minorities of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y. Chamber’s judicial committee, Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
But what about Elizabeth Macdonough?
US Capitol Building (Photo of J. Scott AppleWhite / AP)
I ventured out of the Capitol in the square near the Congress Library to see if any of the tourists visiting Washington for the spring cherry flowers had heard of Elizabeth Macdonough. There I met Billy Coman of Dublin, Ireland, visiting Washington for the first time.
« Here is a name that sounds a little Irish, » I told Coman. « Who is Elizabeth Macdonough? »
Coman asked the question for a moment.
« Elizabeth Macdonough, » Coman said with an Irish Lilt. « Is it the comic? »
I asked a woman named Shirley of Anchorage, Alaska, if I knew the name.
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« Oh s —. I don’t know, » she replied.
I asked the same question to Julia Lowe from Washington State.
« Have you ever listened to the name Elizabeth Macdonough? » I asked.
« I find it familiar, » Lowe replied.
« Do you know who’s? » I counteracted.
« A historical figure possibly or someone currently in the government? » Lowe responded.
Well, Elizabeth Macdonough is in fact in government. And when it comes to CongressHe is one of the most powerful people you have never heard of.
Macdonough is the Senate pArlyamentary. A kind of referee who decides what is allowed in the great and beautiful bill pushed by President Trump, based on the special rules of the Senate budget.
« The parliamentary is quite important, » said Senator Kevin Cramer, RN.D. « But parliamentarians do not have the last word to say (the bill). The Senate governs the Senate. Not the parliamentary. »
That is why the President of the Senate Budget Committee, Lindsey Graham, Rs.C., advanced in the last Senate framework for the tax reduction package. Graham heard he did not need to do his case before Macdonough for this phase.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Rs.c., in the east room of the White House in Washington on September 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
« As President of the Budget, under article 312 of the Congress Budget Law, I have the authority to determine the reference numbers for spending and income, » said Graham. « Under this authority, I have determined that the current policy will be the reference line of the budget regarding taxation. »
In other words, Graham considered that he did not need Macdonough to say -the « base line » to determine if this package is compared to special budget provisions in the Senate. But the next step to approve the tax cut bill could be more complicated.
Everyone will see what Macdonough rule is inside or outside. In fact, his calls could alter the trajectory of the « great and beautiful bill » of the President.
« As you know, we are in conversations, with the parliamentary on the best way to obtain the budget reconciliation we are trying to help the finish line, » said the leader of most Senate, John Thune, Rs.d.
Otherwise the bill could face a Senate filibuster and probably die. Therefore, there is an advantage for the Senate Republicans to manage their framework within the parameters of the unique budget rules, if they are not an adverse sentence of the parliamentary.
In fact, consulting Mirrors with parliamentary football. Specific case, Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. Tuberville was the main football coach in Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas Tech and Cincinnati before coming to Capitol Hill.
Senator Tommy Tuberville pronounces his acceptance speech during an election night at the Renaissance Hotel de Montgomery, Ala., On November 3, 2020. (Imagn)
« You have already worked the Refs and I have seen people work the parliamentary, » your truly told Tuberville.
« We have had to work the parliamentary since I have been here, » said Tuberville. « Sometimes you may have a surprise. But you have to have a referee in the game. You can’t simply autonomous. »
House Conservatives are aimed at implementing cut -off cuts especially steep in the tax reduction package. But these special rules of the Senate budget make it difficult for GOP senators to go as deeply as the chamber would like. Some on the right are myriad about the role of the Senate parliamentary.
« It is an unusual thing that a non-selected official has so much authority, » said representative Eric Burlison, R-MO.
The members of the House are struggling to understand the purpose and power of the Senate parliamentary. Part of this comes from the accustomed rivalry and suspicion between the House and the Senate, which goes back to the beginning of the Republic.
« The parliamentary. Who is? Who chose it? I don’t know, » thought the President of the House Budget Committee, Jodey Arrington, R-Tex. « Where is it in the Constitution? »
Well, article I, section 5 to be precise. This disposition gives the House and the Senate the right to create its own rules and standards of operation. Parliamentary plays a key role in the budget reconciliation process: The mechanism that Republicans are using to advance their reduction in expenses and reduction of expenses.
The United States Senate Chamber on Thursday, April 7, 2022 in Washington. (Senate TV using AP)
The Senate was hooked within a few hours on Saturday morning, approved by the last budget framework prepared by Graham for the legislation. She is now at home. Casa’s GOP leaders would like to address the bill on Wednesday. But they start halfway through the week on the bill in case there is a hiccup.
Or worse.
More than a handful of Republicans say they oppose the last Senate. The House and the Senate must approve the same model in order to do the bill in itself. This is key because the Senate needs a unified framework at its place to use the budget reconciliation process to prevent a filibuster. And Macdonough’s rulings on whether several provisions are in line with this bill, in compliance with the budget law, could have to swing. The budget rules do not allow the legislation to be added to the deficit in a ten -year window.
The rates are not on the bill. But Democrats claim rates And tax cuts are linked.
« They use fare revenue to balance the money that is available to a group of billionaires, » said Senator Brian Sccatz, D-Hawaii, of tax cuts.
Trump’s administration claims that tax cuts will facilitate tariff anxiety, which has ruined markets in recent days.
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Former United States President Donald Trump is shown in front of the Capitol of the United States. (Getty’s pictures)
« The sooner we can obtain certainty in taxes, we can prepare the growth of growth, » said Treasure Secretary, Scott Bessent, at the Bret Bret Bret in the White House last week.
Regardless, the chamber may struggle to align with the new Senate package. And the chamber is likely to be adjusted to anything that requires the Senate to fulfill the parliamentary.
There are many players you will hear in the coming months, as Republicans try to finish the bill. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. The President of the Freedom Caucus, the representative Andy Harris, R-MD. Rece. Chip Roy, R-Tex. They are all key players, as Republicans continue on this hike.
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It is often said to make it official that good referees are invisible. Those who do not notice.
But with so much at stake, it will be difficult for Republicans to avoid noticing the calls of the parliamentary.
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