The Senate parliamentarian just disqualified a bunch of provisions from the big beautiful GOP bill —
including Medicaid provider tax language, funding restrictions based on immigration status (non-citizens
who are refugees, granted asylum or paroled are eligible for federal student aid), spread pricing,
and one prohibition on gender-affirming care.
This complicates the GOP's math on the spending cuts it needs to pass the package, as well as
threatening the careful negotiations between the party's factions on reaching a final deal.
Republicans say they will adjust the language on provider taxes to meet the parliamentarian's standards
to enable them to still shit all over lower- and middle-class Americans in order to give tax cuts to the
very richest Americans.
http://www.axios.com/2025/06/26/senate-medicaid-provider-tax-trump-thune
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5370563-parliamentarian-rules-aca-abortion-subsidies/
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