Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., told Newsmax that the Senate Parliamentarian has gutted the “One Big Beautiful Bill” covering permanent tax cuts and government spending cuts. The legislation was passed earlier in the House.

Donalds told “The Chris Salcedo Show” on Thursday that a lot of people are asking questions about how this can happen. “A lot of these spending cut provisions are being gutted by the Senate parliamentarian, and I know that everybody at home is saying, wait, who’s the Senate parliamentarian, and what election did she win?”

He explained that the parliamentarian is a paid staff position. “The truth is, she’s an employee of the Senate, been there for a very long time.”

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