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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,455 posts)
Wed May 20, 2026, 01:48 PM 4 hrs ago

Trump demands Senate Republicans fire parliamentarian

President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded Senate Republicans fire the nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, after she ruled this weekend that Republicans could not include funding for the White House ballroom in an immigration enforcement bill.

Trump accused MacDonough of thwarting his agenda and urged Republicans to “get smart and tough,” escalating his long-running attacks on procedural hurdles inside Congress.

“Shockingly, Republicans have kept the very important position of ‘Parliamentarian’ in the hands of a woman, Elizabeth MacDonough, who was appointed, long ago, by Barack Hussein Obama and a vicious Lunatic known as Senator Harry Reid, who ran the Senate for the Dumocrats with an ‘iron fist,’” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Over the years, she has been brutal to Republicans, but not so to the Dumocrats — So why has she not been replaced?”

Obama did not have a say in MacDonough’s appointment in 2012.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-demands-senate-republicans-fire-parliamentarian-160424265.html

Wear baggier pants Donny. That'll give you more ball room.

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Trump demands Senate Republicans fire parliamentarian (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 4 hrs ago OP
"Thwarting his agenda..." to fleece the American public. Liberal In Texas 4 hrs ago #1
Ah yes, the soft-spoken vicious lunatic Harry Reid. Qutzupalotl 3 hrs ago #2

Liberal In Texas

(16,431 posts)
1. "Thwarting his agenda..." to fleece the American public.
Wed May 20, 2026, 01:58 PM
4 hrs ago

I suppose he has conveniently forgotten this "won't cost a penny" pledge he kept going on about.

Qutzupalotl

(15,857 posts)
2. Ah yes, the soft-spoken vicious lunatic Harry Reid.
Wed May 20, 2026, 02:45 PM
3 hrs ago

Well known for sensible, bipartisan compromises and other vicious lunacy.

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