Got this as another PDF from our cuz in Canada. I'm not sure where he gets this stuff because you don't see it floating around in the news here. And the good news is, I figured out how to copy and paste it. LOL

"Elizabeth MacDonough doesn't give fiery
speeches on the Senate floor. She doesn't
pound podiums, tweet clapbacks, or beg
for airtime on cable news. Most people
couldn't pick her out of a photo lineup. But
this week, she did more to derail Donald
Trump's legislative fever dream than any
Democrat in Congress. With nothing but a
binder, a brain, and a spine forged from
230 years of procedural precedent, she
calmly gutted the "Big, Beautiful Bill" - and
sent the Republican Party into a frothing,
i n c a n d e s c e n t rage.
Here's the part that should terrify the GOP:
she's not even elected. She's the Senate
Parliamentarian, the nonpartisan referee
responsible for interpreting the arcane
rulebook that governs the world's most
dysfunctional deliberative body. She
doesn't write laws. She doesn't vote. She
doesn't grandstand. Her job is simple:
enforce the rules, no matter who's in
charge. And when Republicans tried to use
reconciliation - a fast-track process
meant for tweaking budgets - to shove
through a far-right wishlist of land
seizures, healthcare rollbacks, and anti-
trans cruelty, she read the fine print and
dropped the hammer.
The "Big, Beautiful Bill" was supposed to
be Trump's magnum opus: a tax-slashing,
Medicaid-burning, land-devouring beast of
a bill that would reshape America in his
image. It included everything from selling
off millions of acres of federal public land
to states and private developers, to gutting
Medicaid for low-income families,
immigrants, and trans people, to defunding
Planned Parenthood and hacking away at
environmental protections like they were
weeds in a billionaire's backyard. It was
grotesque. It w a s rushed. And it w a s
entirely dependent on sliding past Senate
rules without a fight.
Elizabeth MacDonough was the fight. She
reviewed t h e bill's c o n t e n t s a n d ruled -
piece by piece - that major provisions
violated the Byrd Rule, which bars
unrelated ideological junk from hitching a
ride on budget bills. The land sell-off? Not
budgetary. Out. The Medicaid provider tax
cap? Out. The bans on gender-affirming
care, immigrant coverage, and ACA
subsidies? Out. The GOP was left holding
a gutted husk, their legislative trophy
reduced to a few tax cuts and a pile of
r e d a c t e d d r e a m s .
This wasn't sabotage. This was
MacDonough doing her job - the job she's
held since 2012, appointed under a
Democratic majority, and respected by
both parties until it became inconvenient.
She is the Senate's quiet guardian of
process, a civil servant who doesn't
answer to polls, Super PACs, or social
media mobs. Her loyalty is to the rules -
even a s the people around her treat those
rules like a hotel minibar. She doesn't
flinch. She doesn't yield. She simply reads
the law and applies it, with the precision of
a scalpel and the force of a freight train.
And oh, how the GOP hates her for it.
Mike Lee, who tried to shove his public
l a n d s fire s a l e into t h e bill like it w a s a
foreclosure listing, is already scrambling to
rewrite the language and sneak it back in.
Trump, fuming from whatever taxpayer-
funded golf course he's currently defiling,
is screaming about "deep state rule
tyrants." Senate Majority Leader John
Thune is getting asked uncomfortable
q u e s t i o n s a b o u t whether it's time t o
"review" the Parliamentarian's role — a
polite way of saying, " , "Can we fire her for
being smarter than us?"
Because that's the rub. They didn't lose
b e c a u s e t h e D e m o c r a t s o u t m a n e u v e r e d
them. They didn't lose because of public
pressure or media backlash. They lost
because a woman they barely understand
said, quite plainly, "You can't do that." And
when they asked why, she handed them
the rulebook. And when they tried to argue,
she pointed to precedent. And when they
blustered, she didn't even blink.
Elizabeth MacDonough has no political
agenda. That's what makes her so
dangerous to people who do. She exists
o u t s i d e their theater. S h e a n s w e r s to n o
party. And yet, she is currently one of the
most powerful people in Washington - not
because she makes the laws, but because
s h e refuses to let anyone break them.
So no, she didn't kill the Big, Beautiful Bill.
The GOP killed it themselves — by trying to
use budget procedure a s a battering ram
for authoritarian fantasy. MacDonough
simply told the truth. And in 2025, that
might be the most radical thing anyone in
government can do.
Let the Republicans rant. Let them plot her
removal. Let t h e m rewrite their
monstrosities and try again. But remember
this: when the bulldozers were revving,
when the Medicaid cuts were inked, and
when Trump's wrecking ball of a bill was
barreling toward the American people - it
wasn't a senator who stopped it. It wasn't
a protest. It was a woman with a binder
a n d a b a c k b o n e .
We see you, Elizabeth. And we thank you"