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17. SAVE was already ruled out for reconciliation a month ago by the Parliamentarian

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 06:05 PM

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Trump calls on Thune to fire Senate parliamentarian to pass SAVE America Act

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The parliamentarian ruled that the SAVE America Act did not comply with the Senate’s Byrd Rule, which determines what legislation is eligible to be included in a budget reconciliation package that can pass with a simple-majority vote, thereby avoiding a filibuster and 60-vote threshold.

As a result, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) — two Trump allies — had to ask for 60 votes to waive the budgetary objections in order to consider their proposals to amend the budget reconciliation package with the SAVE America Act.

Both motions fell well short of sixty votes.

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That's why it was briefly floated to stick it on the annual NDAA and Thune all but guaranteed that it would be stripped from that.

Doing the same thing over and over is the proverbial "definition of insanity".

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