{"id":9921,"date":"2025-06-05T03:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/parliamentarian-could-nix-the-revenge-tax-increase-in-gop-megabill-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T03:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T03:22:19","slug":"parliamentarian-could-nix-the-revenge-tax-increase-in-gop-megabill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/parliamentarian-could-nix-the-revenge-tax-increase-in-gop-megabill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentarian could nix the \u2018revenge tax\u2019 increase in GOP megabill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions are swirling about whether the Senate&rsquo;s parliamentarian will kill a major tax increase in Republicans&rsquo; megabill &mdash; potentially blowing a big hole in their plans. Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough could decide that a $116 billion provision raising taxes on foreign companies violates the chamber&rsquo;s internal rules about what may go into a reconciliation measure&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/06\/04\/congress\/parliamentarian-could-nix-the-revenge-tax-increase-in-gop-megabill-00386463\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions are swirling about whether the Senate&rsquo;s parliamentarian will kill a major tax increase in Republicans&rsquo; megabill &mdash; potentially blowing a big hole in their plans. Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough could decide that a $116 billion provision raising taxes on foreign companies violates the chamber&rsquo;s internal rules about what may go into a reconciliation measure&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}