4 more Dem plays where the Senate's rules referee can blow the whistle

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President Joe Biden's party is using the filibuster protections of the budget in an attempt to unilaterally usher in historic tax increases and investments in health care, climate change and more. But relying on that reconciliation process allows the Senate’s nonpartisan rules arbiter, known as the parliamentarian, to throw wrenches into Democrats’ painstakingly built policy machine.

The parliamentarian underscored the power of the chamber's rules to clip Democratic ambitions on Sunday night,*ruling against the majority party's bid to include immigration reform in its social spending bill. That isn't the only call Democrats are anxious about getting: They'll likely also need parliamentarian approval to include provisions on labor, clean energy and drug pricing in*their party-line bill. The Senate Budget Committee declined to comment about their strategy for winning those go-aheads.

What the parliamentarian lets stay or forces out of the multitrillion-dollar measure could have enormous consequences for its ultimate success and Biden’s legacy. And the referee has stymied Democrats’ plans before, most notably when she ruled out a minimum wage hike for a coronavirus aid bill they passed earlier this year using reconciliation.

Here are four more issues to watch for parliamentarian decisions on as the legislation takes shape:

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