Overview

• Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled the lawsuit-limiting provision in the GOP’s reconciliation bill violates budget rules.
• The discarded language would have forced anyone suing the Trump administration to post bonds covering government costs before courts grant temporary restraining orders or preliminary injunctions.
• Republicans added the measure to curb nationwide injunctions and limit courts’ power to enforce contempt findings against administration officials.
• Democratic leaders, including Schumer and Durbin, intend to invoke the Byrd Rule to remove this and other non-budget-related provisions during Senate debate.
• With only 53 GOP votes and a 60-vote threshold required for disputed text, Republican efforts to retain the provision are likely to falter.