Republicans are eager to pass the "One Big, Beautiful Bill (OBBB) and implement the MAGA agenda as soon as possible. However, the OBBB is currently undergoing massive changes in the Senate that completely undermine Republican priorities.
First, the Senate Parliamentarian blocked the Medicaid Provider tax provision in the OBBB. Republicans were counting on this to enhance spending cuts and maintain cooperation in their party.
Without the tax provision, the tax cuts at the center of the OBBB have to be accommodated by other spending cuts.
The Senate Parliamentarian also blocked provisions that ban the use of Medicaid funds for gender-affirming care and illegal immigrants.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to this development with frustration and called it ‘America Last insanity.’ She stated, “But the UN-ELECTED Senate Parliamentarian used the Byrd Rule, meaning these Trump agenda priorities, that deliver our campaign promises, need to be stripped out of the One Big Beautiful Bill. “
Rep. Greene framed this issue in the context of a populist agenda throttled by unelected bureaucrats. Greene continued, “The UN-ELECTED Deep State bureaucrats, radical far left activist judges, and America LAST Democrats are doing everything they can to destroy President Trump and THE PEOPLE’S agenda!!!”
The second change comes to the controversial provision regulating the states’ ability to regulate artificial intelligence. Instead of a flat ten-year moratorium on states to regulate AI, the Senate is tying it to a $500 million broadband account.
If a state draws on those funds, it will then be subject to a ten-year moratorium. Rep. Greene pointed out that it is designed to punish rural states that happen to be mostly Republican.
Greene also pointed out that this provision simply has no place in the OBBB. It should be its own resolution so that it can be debated separately.
Greene concluded, “40 state AG’s wrote a letter to Congress against the 10 year AI moratorium on state’s rights. It’s not too late for the Senate to take it out before the OBBB comes back to the house for a vote.”
