Trump’s Ballroom Quest Gets Even More Unhinged (opens in new tab)

The Senate parliamentarian is a nonpartisan referee for the legislative branch that has quietly existed for almost a century. So of course Donald Trump is mad at the current one.Trump pressured Senate Majority Leader John Thune in a private phone call Monday to fire Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, according to reporting by Semafor and NOTUS. Two days earlier, MacDonough ruled against Senate Republicans allocating $1 billion for the president’s ballroom project in their budget reconcilia...