Overview

• Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled multiple GOP proposals violate the Byrd Rule, barring them from the reconciliation process.
• Disallowed measures include zeroing out CFPB funding, $1.4 billion in Federal Reserve staff pay cuts and repeals of Inflation Reduction Act authorizations.
• Environmental and defense rollbacks such as EPA emissions standard repeals and Pentagon spending guardrails were also struck down.
• Senate Majority Leader John Thune declined to override the advisories, leaving Republicans to remove the provisions or secure 60 votes.
• Democrats hailed the decisions as a win against a bill estimated to add at least $2.4 trillion to the deficit and expand the uninsured population.