Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is crying “woke” and demanding Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough be fired after a ruling Thursday morning that blocked a provision in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Senate Republicans added a provision in the OBBBA that would limit undocumented immigrants from receiving Medicaid, among others. Thursday morning, however, MacDonough struck down the proposed changes to Medicaid, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) ruled out the idea of overruling her decision.
“The woke Senate Parliamentarian, who was appointed by Harry Reid and advised Al Gore, just struck down a provision banning illegals from stealing Medicaid from American citizens,” Tuberville wrote on X, formally known as Twitter.
“This is a perfect example of why Americans hate the swamp. Unelected bureaucrats think they know better than U.S. Congressmen who are elected by the people.”
Democratic lawmakers have called MacDonough’s decision on blocking the GOP-backed Medicaid changes a victory, changes that would surmount to billions of dollars of cuts to Medicaid and limit how states can collect taxes to fund their Medicaid programs.
"With more decisions to come, this guidance results in more than $250 billion in health care cuts removed from the Republicans' big bad bill,” said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) Thursday, speaking with NPR.
Unsatisfied with her ruling, however, Tuberville went on to call for MacDonough’s immediate firing, and labeled her decision as an effort to push a “woke agenda.”
“Her job is not to push a woke agenda,” he wrote. “The Senate parliamentarian should be fired ASAP.”
