MAGA Mike Gets Bad News as He Fails Trump
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What parliamentary ruling caused MAGA Mike’s budget bill to collapse?
This is Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson's nightmare. A grenade has just been thrown at his disastrous budget bill, and boom, it is all blowing up before his eyes. And Donald Trump is not going to be very happy with you, MAGA Mike Johnson, because it's all falling apart on Thursday. A few things happened. Number one, Elizabeth McDonough, who's been the Senate Parliament. Parliamentarian since 2012 made a parliamentarian ruling that the current form of the Senate budget bill violates what's called the Byrd Rule and thus would have to be brought to the normal procedure, which would allow for a filibuster, which basically means that in its current form, the budget bill could not serve. Survive. I'll get into that development.
That could potentially totally kill the budget bill. The Senate is now trying to figure out the MAGA Republicans in the Senate. They're trying to figure out a fix to that. Now, on the House, you now have a revolt by the so-called moderate MAGA Republicans in the House, who I don't believe are moderate at all. And one of the things that They're pissed off about is they feel that they've been tricked by MAGA Mike Johnson, who promised them that uh they were going to be able to deliver something for their constituents. And these are individuals who needed for their constituents an increase in the salt deduction from $10,000 to a $40,000 deduction. The salt Refers to state and local tax deduction. It impacts a lot of the New York MAGA Republicans, for example.
And these saltbacker MAGA Republicans, as they're called, they're pissed because the Senate undid exactly what they believed they negotiated for in the House with MAGA Mike. But MAGA Mike's plan was to trick these Republicans in the House. House and then allow the Senate to kind of gut what MAGA Mike promised to these uh MAGA Republicans uh in the House. So a lot of them are saying, well, we're not gonna vote for this budget bill anymore. And also there was this other letter where 16 so-called moderate MAGA Republicans, which to me is an oxymoron, there's no such thing as moderate MAGA Republicans, they've also sent a Letter to Senator John Thune and to MAGA Mike Johnson. John Thune is the Senate majority leader.
And in this letter from the 16 MAGA Republicans, they're saying we're not going to support this budget bill based on the way the Senate has made additional cuts to Medicaid. This is far more than our constituents can handle. And we've already attacked Medicaid.
How did the Senate parliamentarian’s Byrd‑Rule decision affect Medicaid cuts?
In the house. You're even going further than what we did, going to force more people off of Medicaid. And we simply can't trick our constituents anymore because of what you're doing. You're making it even more flagrant. But I don't think they've been able to trick their constituents at all because another piece of disastrous news for MAGA Mike Johnson is this brutal policy. Poll on this disastrous budget bill from Quinnipiac that just came out showing that now there's only 29% support for this, 55% in opposition. Um, when it comes to the Republicans, only two-thirds of Republicans support this disastrous atrocity of a bill compared to 87% opposition from Democrats. I don't know who the 13% Democrats are who support this thing.
They must not know what it is. And there's also two-thirds opposition from independence. So this is one big, massive disaster for MAGA Mike Johnson. So Laura Weiss was the first to give us this breaking news this morning. And she explained how the Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough struck a massive blow to Republicans' Medicaid cuts per an announcement from the Senate budget Dems, who were pushing this this Senate parliamentarian to make this ruling. I know it's all pretty complicated. A Senate parliamentarian. What the hell is going on here, Ben? So the Senate parliamentarian was appointed back in 2012. Elizabeth McDonough's her name. She's someone who makes kind of procedural rulings to ensure that budget rules are conform to.
She's someone who is well respected by Democrats and Republicans, because look, she's had this job now for 13 years.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What parliamentary ruling caused MAGA Mike’s budget bill to collapse?
0:00–2:55
2
How did the Senate parliamentarian’s Byrd‑Rule decision affect Medicaid cuts?
2:55–5:24
3
Why are House “salt‑backer” Republicans rebelling against Mike Johnson’s plan?
5:24–8:18
4
What does the Quinnipiac poll reveal about public support for the bill?
8:18–10:41
5
How does the Byrd‑Rule impact the bill’s reconciliation strategy?
10:41–13:15
6
Which provisions were flagged as non‑compliant and why are they controversial?
13:15–15:21
7
What are GOP leaders saying about firing or keeping the Senate parliamentarian?
15:21–17:26
8
How might the budget bill’s delays affect the July 4th deadline Trump wants?
17:26–19:02
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