The Senate parliamentarian is making headlines this week as President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" spending bill makes its way through the upper chamber and is prepped for a vote.

According to Breitbart, the Senate parliamentarian decided that at least eight more provisions of Trump's spending bill will not be able to pass through the Senate without at least 60 votes, as opposed to the simple majority vote rule.

The job of determining which parts of Trump's spending bill are eligible for simple majority votes falls on Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who has made a number of bombshell decisions this week regarding the fate of the bill and how it will be voted on.

Republicans are pushing to pass the bill through the budget reconciliation process, which only requires a simple majority vote.

What's going on?

MacDonough continued to make news this week after she identified eight parts of the bill that cannot be passed with the budget reconciliation process, including some border security and immigration enforcement provisions.

Several other provisions were listed, including:

Increasing the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) contribution rate for new civil servants if they do not agree to become “at-will” employees.

Imposing a $350 fee for federal employees to file a case with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), which adjudicates appeals brought by federal civil servants to protect federal merit systems against partisan political and prohibited personnel practices.

Another provision blocked was "Granting authority to agencies to rescind funds through an incentive program for federal employees to identify unnecessary funds and return it to the Treasury."

Another big provision that will require a full 60-count vote includes allowing "federal agencies to transfer, consolidate, or eliminate whole agencies or functions of agencies."

Two more listed included "Mandating the sale of all United States Postal Service electric vehicles," and "Changing agency rulemaking by prohibiting agencies from implementing, administering , or enforcing rules with budgetary effects."

Democrats are pushing for the parliamentarian to identify as many provisions as possible that can't be passed with a simple majority vote.

Democrats speak out

Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-OR) expressed his opposition to Trump's bill, calling it a "Big, Beautiful Betrayal" of American families.

"There is no better way to define this Big Beautiful Betrayal of a bill than families lose, and billionaires win. Democrats are on the side of families and workers and are scrutinizing this bill piece by piece to ensure Republicans can’t use the reconciliation process to force their anti-worker policies on the American people," the senator said.

Merkley added, "The Byrd Rule is enshrined in law for a reason, and Democrats are making sure it is enforced."

Only time will tell if additional provisions that need a full vote are identified.