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Trump Tells Thune to Fire the Senate Parliamentarian — And He's Right

President Trump just told Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire the Senate Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, after she ruled that the SAVE America Act — a nationwide voter ID bill — violates the Senate's Byrd Rule and can't pass through budget reconciliation. In other words, an unelected bureaucrat from the Obama era is single-handedly blocking a law that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and ID to show up at the polls.

Let that sink in. One person — not a senator, not a judge, not anyone you've ever voted for — just told 330 million Americans they can't have the thing they elected Trump to do.

Trump took to Truth Social to make the case plain: "Senate Majority Leader John Thune should immediately fire the parliamentarian, who treats Republicans...horribly. We have every right to change her, and should do so, immediately. As long as she's there, we will never get our desperately needed, Save America Act approved."

He's not wrong. MacDonough has held the parliamentarian position since the Obama administration, and her track record of "treating Republicans horribly" isn't exactly a state secret. The Byrd Rule she's invoking is supposed to keep non-budgetary items out of reconciliation packages — the fast-track process that lets the Senate pass legislation with a simple majority instead of the usual 60-vote threshold. MacDonough decided voter ID doesn't qualify.

Convenient, isn't it? Democrats can't kill voter ID on the Senate floor because they don't have the votes, so instead an unelected referee throws a flag and the play gets called back. The parliamentarian's ruling effectively means the SAVE America Act would need 60 votes to pass — which, in today's Senate, means it doesn't pass at all.

Here's what the chattering class won't tell you: the parliamentarian serves at the pleasure of the majority leader. That's it. Thune can replace her tomorrow morning before his first cup of coffee. Democrats have done it before. When Robert Dove ruled against them in 2001, they showed him the door without a second thought. But when Republicans get the same raw deal, we're told it would be "breaking norms" and "undermining institutions."

Spare me.

The SAVE America Act is about as common-sense as legislation gets. You need an ID to buy a beer, board an airplane, or pick up a package at the post office. But proving you're a citizen before you vote? Apparently that's a bridge too far for the Senate's in-house umpire.

Thune now has a choice to make, and it's not a complicated one. He can listen to the D.C. establishment types who will clutch their pearls about "respecting the process," or he can listen to the President — and the tens of millions of Americans who voted for him — who want elections that actually verify the people casting ballots are allowed to cast them.

As Just the News reported, Trump made the demand on Monday, just days after MacDonough issued her ruling the previous week. The clock is ticking. Every day Thune waits is a day the swamp wins.

We didn't send a Republican majority to Washington so they could shrug and say "well, the parliamentarian said no." We sent them to fight. Trump is fighting. The question is whether John Thune will pick up the phone and do what every Republican voter in America is screaming for him to do.

Fire her. Pass the bill. Next question.

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