MacDonough Rules Out GOP's Immigration Package
The provisions violated the Senate's Byrd Rule.
The package was intended to use the Homeland Security Committee's reconciliation lane.
MacDonough determined the $71.7 billion required a 60-vote threshold.
$2.5 billion in DHS appropriations were deemed inappropriately funded.
Republicans must redraft and abandon the provisions by June 1.
The ruling complicates the GOP's efforts to pass immigration funding through reconciliation.
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