Senate Parliamentarian Puts Brakes On Ballroom Secret Service Funding – Full Article

Ryan Wrasse, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), brushed off the setback for the GOP bill Saturday.

“Redraft. Refine. Resubmit. None of this is abnormal during a Byrd process,” Wrasse wrote in a post on X.

The “Byrd process” refers to the informal review conducted by the Senate parliamentarian to determine whether provisions in a budget reconciliation bill comply with the Byrd Rule.

The Byrd Rule is designed to ensure that measures included in reconciliation legislation are directly related to federal spending, revenue, or the national debt, while preventing unrelated policy provisions from being added to bills that can pass the Senate with a simple majority.