The US Capitol building in Washington, DC, on May 7, 2025 (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
Washington-Die Republicans cannot exclude weapon silencers, short-term rifles and short-term shotguns, since, according to the recent decision of the Senate parliamentarian, they are classified as firearms under the recent decision of the parliamentarian as firearms under a federal law on weapons regulation.
The determination, which deals with silencers, also called Suppressors, was included in the version of the house of Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde in the version of the house. The financial committee of the Senate expanded it and added the other two classifications.
The decision means that the section is now dropped from the Senate version of the tax and expenditure cutting or rewritten in a way that corresponds to the rules.
The disclosure of the most recent parliamentary judgment on Friday morning came when the Senate continued to struggle with the massive legislation that the GOP leaders in the congress want to say goodbye to the signature of President Donald Trump in good time.
The Senate will probably remain in the meeting all weekend and possibly at the beginning of next week to complete the negotiations on provisions and publish the final text, to submit a procedural vote, to debate the bill, to hold a voice department of marathon changes and then coordinate the final passage.
The house, which is supposed to be on vacation during the break next week, will probably return to Capitol Hill about two days after the law was approved to clarify the legislation for Trump’s signature.
Debate about weapon sound debate in the house
Clyde said during the ground debate in May, since silencers were included in the National Firearms Act, they are also subject to a tax of 200 US dollars that violates the rights of the second change in humans.
“According to the law, they are firearms and are therefore protected by another law, which was described in 1791 as the second change of our beloved constitution,” said Clyde. “The right of people to keep and carry weapons must not be injured, and it should not be taxed either.”
The Democratic MP from Florida Maxwell Frost spoke out against the house supply during the ground debate and said that in the event of mass shootings, the source of the shots more hard and identify and react to the source of the shots.
“In the past, I presented a change to remove this tax reduction for the weapon lobby, and the Republicans of the Republicans would not even let a vote.”
Frost said that the office for alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives “recovered over 400 silencers from violent crime scenes in 2023. For this reason, silencers have been heavily regulated for almost 100 years.”
The financial committee of the Senate, the member Ron Wyden, D-ORE.
“It is no surprise that the Republicans like to please the arms lobby by reeling weapons security measures on every opportunity, but this type of directive is not part of a reconciliation law,” wrote Wyden.
The chairman of the Finance Committee, Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, did not immediately answer an application for a statement. However, the committee has driven back and forth with the parliamentarian how other provisions can be revised that are classified as non -compliant as the final legislation.
A Summary of the provision From the CRAPO office, it would have been reserved for “when removing the transfer and manufacturing tax to these devices” and “Certain state or local licensing or registration requirements, which are determined by referring to the National Fire Brand Act, the treatment of people who have these rifles or local information or the license prescribes.
Reconciliation process
The Republicans shift their comprehensive tax and expenditure cuts through the congress with a special process that goes hand in hand as a budget reconciliation Complex rules in the Senate.
The chamber’s parliamentarian combed himself through the law, hears from Republicans and Democrats before he found whether any provision has expenses, income or the debt limit.
The Byrd rule has several other aspects named after the former Senator of West Virginia, Robert Byrd, including the provision that a provision cannot have a “random” effect on the federal book. Reconciliation calculations cannot affect social security either.
The parliamentarian has ruled several other Supplies In the GOP-MEGA-Bill, the guidelines for a reconciliation calculation do not correspond, although some committees have been able to revise certain directive changes through the adjustment.
The Republicans decided to move the legislative template through reconciliation, as they enable them to deal with the 60-voice filibuster of the Senate, which usually forces non-partisan negotiations on the most vital legislation.
The process is time -consuming and cloudy, but the Republican leaders in the congress are still pushing forward with their self -imposed goal on July fourth.
