Senate Parliamentarian Rules Out Gun Silencer, School Choice Provisions From Megabill

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that a provision deregulating gun silencers cannot be included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the GOP is looking to pass to implement President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. Gun silencers reduce the noise that comes from shooting a firearm. In another blow to gun rights activists, a provision to also remove regulations surrounding easily concealable firearms under the National Firearms Act was stripped out of the bill. Also removed was a provision to create a new, unprecedented federal subsidy for private and religious schools. In another school-related measure, an exemption from an endowment tax for religious-chartered schools such as Hillsdale College in Michigan was deemed out of order....