Senate, spending cuts and public broadcasting
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Trump's $9 billion rescissions package is advancing, despite a trio of Republican defections. It targets foreign aid and public broadcasting funding.
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WASHINGTON (TNND) — Friday is the big deadline for Congress to claw back more than $9 billion in already approved federal funds. Early Thursday morning, the Senate approved the bill after an all-night vote-a-rama. But now it heads to the House because of amendments made in the Senate.
Vice President JD Vance cast two tie-breaking votes in the Senate Tuesday to move forward a $9.4 billion rescissions package — which would rip federal funding from PBS and NPR — in the upper chamber.
The report comes about six months after Trump returned to the White House and began taking drastic measures that his administration says will improve government efficiency and protect U.S. interests, triggering condemnation from Democrats that the moves could amount to ceding global influence to China.