The Senate parliamentarian ruled that measures to mandate public land sales and accelerate approvals for new oil and gas leases must be stripped from Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, handing another win to Democrats in the Senate.
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled late Monday that these provisions, as well as several others put forth by the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, violate the Byrd Rule, which limits what sort of measures can be included in budget reconciliation.
Republicans have been seeking to use budget reconciliation to advance President Donald Trump’s tax and spending agenda. This process allows fiscal legislation to bypass the filibuster.
The Byrd Rule, which only applies to actions from the Senate, requires that any provisions included in reconciliation must be primarily fiscal in their effects.
“Democrats continue to show up and fight every provision of this Big, Beautiful Betrayal of a bill, because this bill is an attack on workers and families everywhere,” Senate Budget Committee ranking member Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said in a statement.
“Democrats will not stand idly by while Republicans attempt to circumvent the rules of reconciliation in order to sell off public lands to fund tax breaks for billionaires,” Merkley added.
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