Is this a bit? I cannot stress this enough, per the SCOTUS Biden could legally take a bust of John Kennedy and beat the Parliamentarian to death on the floor of Congress. The Parliamentarian can also be easily replaced if they won't play ball, which as been done before. Or congress could just ignore them.

But the ruling likely makes it easier for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to get his members in line behind the bill since the rise in the minimum wage had been a key sticking point for moderates like Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

Lol

White House officials, cognizant of the potential math problem with Senate Democrats if the minimum wage increase were in the final package, had been counting on the provision being stripped, the administration official told CNN.

Also, lol

“I strongly disagree with tonight’s decision by the Senate Parliamentarian,” Sanders said in a statement Thursday evening. “The (Congressional Budget Office) made it absolutely clear that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour had a substantial budgetary impact and should be allowed under reconciliation. It is hard for me to understand how drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was considered to be consistent with the Byrd Rule, while increasing the minimum wage is not,” Sanders added, referring to the rule – named after the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd – that prohibits including “extraneous” measures as part of the budget process that Democrats are employing to send the Covid-19 relief package to Biden’s desk by early March.

It would have been nice if Sanders had died at some narratively significant moment when we still believed in him.

I can't tell if this is a sarcastic bit or not?

I haven't read the article because it's CNN so I assume they never actually say something like "the Parliamentarian is elected for life and has an unbreakable veto", they just allude to it to make the reader draw that conclusion themselves.

If it's not a bit I can dig up some more info on the role of the Parliamentarian.

I'm not American so the closest the civics-equivalent class came to this process is where, if the Senate fails to pass a House bill twice, the government can dissolve parliament and hold an election immediately. Then after an election, if the Senate still refuses to pass the same House bill, the government can essentially merge the upper and lower houses for a voting session to get stuff through.