Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville became the first GOP Senator to defend the ouster of Senate Elizabeth McDonough on Thursday morning hours after hitting the first Medicaid reforms from the Senate Republican budget bill.
Tuberville, running for Governor of Alabama, has called on Senate President McDonough to fire McDonough to fire provisions from President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill. McDonough, an unelected official who helps lawmakers interpret Senate procedures, has so far struck 47 provisions from the president’s sweeping tax and immigration bill. (Related: Unelected officials continue to take over Browch to Trump’s agenda)
Tuberville highlighted the 2012 appointment of former Democratic Senator majority leader Harry Reid to the role of McDonough Senate, accusing McDonough of undermining the president’s “order” to implement his domestic policy agenda.
Did Senator Harry Reed not get a memo?
President Trump’s landslide victory was a mission from 77 million Americans.
One big beautiful bill will fulfill its mission.
Congress is trying to undermine the president’s duties and should be fired.
– Coach Tommy Tuberville (@sentuberville) June 26, 2025
“The awakened senator appointed Harry Reed and advised Al Gore, broke the clause banning stealing Medicaid from American citizens,” Tuberville wrote Thursday morning. “This is the perfect example of why Americans hate swamps.”
“I believe that unelected bureaucrats know better than people’s elected US lawmakers,” Tuberville continued. “Her job is not to promote awakened agenda. The senator should be fired as soon as possible.”
McDonough is an unelected official, but she has a major impact on the so-called budget settlement process that Congressional Republicans use to pass the president’s budget bill through a simple majority vote in the Senate. The Democrats in the Upper Chamber are trying to challenge and have as many provisions as possible within the Senate plan. Celebrated McDonough’s ruling has so far hit key provisions from the bill.
Several GOP senators previously told the Daily Call News Foundation that McDonough had supported more GOP provisions than she attacked in the budget bill.
The call for the firing of MacDonough in Tuberville is a noticeable shift from Alabama Republicans’ respect for the previous Congress in a brief interview with the DCNF on Tuesday.
“Most of them have experienced something we’re excited about,” Tuberville said. “We’ll discuss some of them, some of them we don’t.”
So did Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall. Make a call Fox News Digital, the first reported Fox News Digital, has become Thune to drive away MacDonough. Marshall also said he would introduce a resolution restricting parliamentary service from serving parliamentary terms.
McDonough is the joy of the majority leader, but Thune has not shown to ever show that he is seeking her removal. The only member of Congress in US history to be fired occurred in 2001 when Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott took place. I was exiled Robert Dove from the role of scorekeeper in the upper chamber.
McDonough’s call for fire could potentially divide Republican senators, allowing additional hurdles to Senate GOP leadership to vote early on Friday for versions of the president’s budget bill.
“We all respect Congress,” says Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy. I said Thursday’s reporter. “I think she’s very fair, I don’t think she should be fired, I don’t think she’ll be fired.”
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