President Donald Trump is demanding that Senate Majority Leader John Thune sack the upper chamber’s nonpartisan parliamentarian in favor of a more compliant and partisan replacement after she scuttled GOP plans to attach funding for his massive ballroom project to a piece of border security and immigration enforcement legislation.
Writing on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump hit out at the Senate’s Republican majority for “shockingly” keeping MacDonough in the job she has held since 2012 and claimed — inaccurately — that then-president Barack Obama had played a role in her appointment in addition to the person who did appoint her, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
