Senate parliamentarian rejecting Trump provisions in his mega bill left and right

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has rejected even more Republican megabill provisions that align with President Donald Trump’s agenda.

She ruled against a provision that would ” increase the Federal Employees Retirement Systems contribution rate for new civil servants if they do not agree to give up civil service protections to become at-will employees,” according to a report by The Hill.

President Donald Trump has made clear his desire to cut the federal workforce and shrink the size of the United States government, both to save money and also to increase the efficiency with which it works. This has been met with heavy resistance from Democrats, who oppose bureaus like the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its exposure of wasted taxpayer funds.

MacDonough also nixed “a section of the bill that would allow the executive branch to reorganize federal government agencies — or eliminate whole agencies — without congressional oversight,” the outlet continued.

Also rejected were two provisions that contained language “granting authority to agencies to unilaterally rescind funds appropriated by Congress by establishing an incentive program for federal employees to identify ‘unnecessary expenditures’ and transfer savings back to the Treasury Department” as well as one ordering the United States Postal Service to sell all electric vehicles and any “charging infrastructure.”

Her reasoning? These provisions violated the Byrd Rule, which is a part of the budget reconciliation process that restricts how many “extraneous” matters can be included in such legislation.

Predictably, Democrats are hailing the parliamentarian’s decisions.

“There is no better way to define this Big Beautiful Betrayal of a bill than families lose, and billionaires win. Democrats are on the side of families and workers and are scrutinizing this bill piece by piece to ensure Republicans can’t use the reconciliation process to force their anti-worker policies on the American people,” said Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, in a statement. “The Byrd Rule is enshrined in law for a reason, and Democrats are making sure it is enforced.”