Senate Parliamentarian Blocks $1 Billion White House Security Proposal

This represents normal legislative process functioning correctly—the parliamentarian enforcing budget reconciliation rules against an administration spending request. The separation-of-powers score reflects the system working as designed (checks functioning), not erosion. The proposal itself raises minor corruption questions (luxury spending on executive residence), but the event is the *blocking* of that spending, which is constitutionally healthy. This is noise: a vanity spending proposal appropriately rejected through normal channels.