A Running List of Policies Rejected From the Republican Megabill
By: Alicia Parlapiano | Published: 2025-06-24 19:34:00 | Source: www.nytimes.com
This page will be updated as more decisions are released and changes are made to the rejected provisions.
The bill carrying much of President Trump’s domestic agenda is facing examination by the Senate parliamentarian, a nonpartisan official who enforces the chamber’s complex rules — and who can effectively strip out parts of the bill that don’t comply.
Republicans will be able to push the tax and entitlement package through with a simple Senate majority, avoiding a Democratic filibuster, as long as it complies with the “Byrd Rule,” which has governed the budget reconciliation process they are using since the 1980s. Under the rule, each of the bill’s provisions:
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Must produce a non-incidental change to the federal budget. In other words, it must primarily be a…