For more than a dozen years and multiple changes in Senate control, Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has been the chamber’s referee, acting as a nonpartisan enforcer of its rules and ...

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill blocking illegal immigrants from receiving Medicaid benefits had to be removed. Senate Republicans ...

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Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough’s rulings on the president’s signature legislation, namely new Medicaid cuts, have sent Republican senators scrambling.

We’ll continue to litigate it.” MacDonough was appointed to the Senate parliamentarian role in 2012 by Sen. Harry Reid, the late Nevada Democrat who was the majority leader at the time.