Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has ruled out a major provision in President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ that was designed to restrict states’ use of Medicaid provider tax.
The Senate referee has found that the provision that proposes to cut the Medicaid provider tax does not comply with procedural rules, The Associated Press reported.
The GOP mega bill cleared the House in late May with plans to freeze the Medicare provider tax, which is imposed by almost all states on hospitals and other facilities that serve Medicaid at current levels.
However, the Senate version of the bill proposed cuts to the provider tax amid concerns the states use them to receive even more funding from the federal government.
The parliamentarian’s ruling is rarely ignored in the Senate, which is currently racing to pass the bill to meet a July 4 deadline imposed by Trump.
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