Senator Goes Scorched Earth Against Unelected Bureaucrat Undermining Trump’s Bill

Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville became the first GOP senator to advocate for Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough’s ouster on Thursday morning, just hours after she struck initial Medicaid reforms from Senate Republicans’ budget bill.

Tuberville, who is running for the Alabama governorship, called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire MacDonough for nixing provisions from the Senate’s version of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill that would have prohibited Medicaid funding for child sex-change procedures and banned the use of federal Medicaid dollars to cover noncitizens. MacDonough, an unelected official who helps lawmakers interpret Senate procedure, has struck 47 provisions from the president’s sweeping tax and immigration bill thus far.

Tuberville highlighted MacDonough’s appointment to the Senate Parliamentarian role in 2012 by the late former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and accused MacDonough of undermining the president’s “mandate” to implement his domestic policy agenda.

“The WOKE Senate Parliamentarian, who was appointed by Harry Reid and advised Al Gore, just STRUCK DOWN a provision BANNING illegals from stealing Medicaid from American citizens,” Tuberville wrote on X Thursday morning. “This is a perfect example of why Americans hate THE SWAMP.”

“Unelected bureaucrats think they know better than U.S. Congressmen who are elected BY THE PEOPLE,” Tuberville continued. “Her job is not to push a woke agenda. THE SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN SHOULD BE FIRED ASAP.”