“But in 2001, Republicans took a drastic step after a series of rulings went against their plans. The Senate was evenly split at the time, with the GOP holding a razor-thin majority thanks to recently elected Vice President Richard B. Cheney’s tiebreaking vote.
Republicans tried to usher tax cuts through Congress under the budget reconciliation process that allows the Senate to move legislation forward with a simple 51-vote majority rather than the 60 votes normally required to avoid a filibuster. But then-Senate Parliamentarian Robert Dove ruled that most of the tax cuts and a measure creating a $5 billion fund for natural disaster damage could not be considered using the reconciliation process.
He was promptly dismissed by Secretary of the Senate Gary Sisco at the behest of then-Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.). Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.), the Senate’s top Democrat at the time, called the firing “very disappointing and extremely harmful to the process,” but did not say much else.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...outputType=amp

Reading this just further frustrates me knowing we are so close, but these pathetic weak losers don’t have the balls to do it.