Trump demands Senate Republicans fire parliamentarian

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Politico

Trump demands Senate Republicans fire parliamentarian

The president’s broadside comes days after she rejected Republicans’ effort to fund the ballroom project through an immigration enforcement bill.


Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough watches during the certification of Electoral College ballots in the presidential election, in the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP

By BEN JOHANSEN and JENNIFER SCHOLTES
05/20/2026 12:04 PM EDT

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.

Speaking with reporters Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota observed that it’s not the first time Trump has made such a demand, adding that while “there may be some issues related to the parliamentarian, but most of the issues we have here are votes.”

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/20/trump-demands-senate-republicans-fire-senate-parliamentarian-00929797

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This might not be actual LBN, because he's been making the same demand for the last few days. This is today's' non-negotiable demand. Also, he's confused on why she's there.

Take that for what it's worth.

[SSJVegeta]

1. They dont even need to fire the parliamentarian to get what they waant

They can just kill the fillibuster.

[cstanleytech]

4. They don't want to do that because they fear retaliation from the Democrats once they have the majority.

[SSJVegeta]

5. I mean. Dems can fire the parliamentarian too

Either way there will be retaliation.

At least killing the fillibuster would be democratic.

[dalton99a]

2. He'll ask Blanche to prosecute her for treason

[Uncle Joe]

3. If one believes they're above the law, the same attitude would apply to how they regard the idea of referees.

We wouldn't need them anymore than we need judges.

That's why *rump is confused.

Thanks for the thread mahatmakanejeeves

[maxsolomon]

6. Every day he shows his ass.

The Parliamentarian shut down Dems on multiple Reconciliation Bill items.

Repukes are just worse at Reconciliation legislating. She didn't do a G-D thing about the Recissions bills.

[sellitman]

7. I'm for killing the filibuster.

After they kill the electoral College and use the popular vote to elect Presidents.

[twodogsbarking]

8. He smells so bad one mask is not enough.

[tonekat]

9. He "demands"?!

Screw him, it's OUR government, not his scam.

Well, not sure about that after yesterday.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. He might sue for $10,000,000,000 for the psychic damage he's being forced to endure. NT

[eggplant]

11. Discovery would be a bitch.