One example is funding for Planned Parenthood.
A prolife organization was pleased to see the Senate include language in the Big Beautiful Bill that would 'defund big abortion.'
But the Senate version defunds Planned Parenthood for only one year compared to a much more aggressive House version that defunds the nation’s leading abortion provider for 10 years.
It took Vice President J.D. Vance to break the 50-50 tie, but the Senate passed the massive bill that has been President Donald Trump's signature legislative priority.
The legislation now returns to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson had warned senators not to deviate too far from what his chamber had already approved.
But the Senate did make changes, particularly to Medicaid, risking more problems as lawmakers race to finish by Trump's Fourth of July deadline.
Jameson Taylor is Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs at AFA Action, the political arm of the American Family Association.

“John Thune, (the majority leader) and the Republicans in the U.S. Senate have failed MAGA. They have failed the American people. Thune said that this bill was going to get better when it came over to the senate. Instead, we saw that the one Big-Beautiful Bill got worse in virtually every way. There's more spending, more debt in the bill. There's fewer reforms to welfare programs. There's fewer cuts to Planned Parenthood which we were looking to defund."
Even a smaller gain is worthwhile says Kelsey Pritchard of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
"This is a similar measure that we tried to get through in 2015 and 2017 and in 2017 we fell one vote short in the senate when John McCain voted against it because it was a part of the repeal and replace Obamacare package," she said. "So, this is really huge that we got through the senate today."
The House version of the Big Beautiful Bill called for no funding for 10 years. The Senate version says one year. Because of the Senate parliamentarian, the final version will have to be one year.
Parliamentarian authority allowed Elizabeth MacDonough to reduce defunding to one year because she determined that 10 years went beyond “budgetary scope” and therefore violated the Byrd rule which prohibits non-budgetary extraneous matter in reconciliation bills.

"We are close to achieving the biggest pro-life victory nationally since the Dobbs decision," says Pritchard.
The Senate parliamentarian is an appointed position. Despite the fact that the Republicans control the Senate, MacDonough, appointed by former Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid in 2012, remains in that position.
She didn’t impact BBB only with funding for Planned Parenthood.
Perhaps one of her most outrageous decisions was striking a provision preventing illegal aliens from accessing Medicaid, even though 71-percent of Americans don't want illegal aliens getting Medicaid.
“I think she's gone too far in trashing the big, beautiful bill that have real costs to the taxpayers that certainly should qualify. And yet she struck those too. So I think she's cruising for a bruising. That is, I think that Trump will have had enough and the Senate will have had enough. And John Thune the Majority Leader can remove her and appoint someone else,” Washington Times columnist Robert Knight told AFN.

Thune has so-far refused to overrule MacDonough, let alone replace her
Though he doesn’t believe it will be on the president’s desk by July 4, Taylor is optimistic for improvement in the final product, what he called a 100% Republican bill.
“I think that once the Senate and the House sit down and hopefully come up with a better version of the one Big Beautiful Bill with a bill that is closer to what the House originally passed, I think it's going to become a must-pass bill for Republicans in the Senate."
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