The Senate parliamentarian ruled several key provisions in Trump's tax and spending bill violate the rules and therefore must be removed from the final package.

Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas) rewrote a House-passed AI moratorium to try to comply with the chamber’s budgetary rules. His version made upholding the moratorium a condition for receiving billions in federal broadband expansion funds. Both parties made their arguments before the parliamentarian Thursday.

The 53 GOP senators won't be able to pass the bill's worst provisions without at least 7 Democratic votes.