Trump demands Senate Republicans fire parliamentarian [View all]

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.