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The Parliamentarian position was established because 100 years ago, it was very difficult to keep track of Senate rules. They were all written on paper, passed over a course of over a century, and fully known only to one single guy who was a journalist who researched them so he could add rules-based commentaries to news articles about Senate debates. Then they hired that guy as a Parliamentarian since Senators kept breaking rules they didn't know.

In 1985, after that guy died, the Parliamentarian became a position with actual power in the Senate as a result of the Byrd rule, which was a pragmatic, negotiated easing of the 60-vote requirement of the Senate for the sake of passing budgets.

Now the Parliamentarian decides if budget bills pass or not. This is a huge power which was never even intended for the Parliamentarian, and the Vice President and the Majority Leader both hold the authority to fire the Parliamentarian at any time.

What I can say about that is that Vance probably doesn't want to fire the Parliamentarian immediately to just cheat the rules. We want to make it look like we're trying to work within the rules before we lay down the hammer and purge this degenerate Parliamentarian.