According to NOTUS, President Donald Trump is pressuring Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough. This comes after she ruled that budget rules blocked $1 billion in funding for Trump’s White House ballroom project from being included in the budget reconciliation bill. Republicans do not have enough votes in the Senate to beat a filibuster, so the simple majority path was the only option.
The ballroom has been a long-running project for Trump, who said last September that it would be “absolutely magnificent construction” and “one of the best anywhere in the world.” He had earlier promised the construction “won’t interfere with the current building” and would be “near [the East Wing] but not touching it.”
