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Senate GOP approves bill to slash foreign aid and public broadcasting funds

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Republicans in the Senate, by opposing democracy and interior, criticized the passes of President Donald Trump’s package by billions of dollars in early Thursday morning.

The $ 9 billion rescue bill is making discounts to “wake” spending on external, NPR and PBS aid programs previously approved by Congress. Republicans have established the bill as their endeavor to clarify waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.

The Senate is moving towards passing the Trump Bill in mind

President Donald Trump is smiling with President Nayb Bokil from El Salvador at the White House Oval Office, April 14, 2025, in Washington. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The majority leader of the Senate John Thun, Rurawi, said it is a task that the Republican Party and Trump, which was defined by the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE) many cuts listed in the package.

“I appreciate all the work that the administration has done in determining waste spending,” said Thun. “Now it is time for the Senate to play its role to reduce some of these waste from the budget. It is a small but important step towards the financial rationality that we must agree on all late.”

The president’s rescue package suggested a shy cut of $ 8 billion from the United States Agency for International Development (the United States Agency for International Development), more than a billion dollars from the Public Broadcasting Corporation (CPB), and the government -backed financing arm to NPR and PBS.

Trump passes

Sens. John Thne, John Cornyn, and Tim Scott in 2021

Senator John Thun (R-SD), Senator Tim Scott (R-L) and Senator John Corn (R-TX), joined the Democrats of the Senate in the American Capitol Building on September 29, 2021, in Washington. (Kevin Lietsch/Getty Images)

It is likely to be the first to come from the White House.

Unlike previous procedural sounds, Vice President JD Vance was not needed to break the draw, with only two Republicans, SNS. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, joined all Democrats in the Senate for the bill. Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

He is now heading to the House of Representatives, where Republicans have warned the Senate against not making changes to the package. But as during the budget reconciliation process earlier this month, the Speaker of Parliament Mike Johnson, R. La fell. And financial hawks on deaf ears in the upper room.

The Republican Party of the Republican Party version is already smaller, about $ 400 million, after the Senate leaders agreed to make a sculpture that spared no financing for HIV during the Bush and AIDS era.

Senate brackets of the Senate to test on the Trump package of $ 9.4 billion

Eric Schmidt speaks on the second day of the Republican National Congress

On the second day, Senator Shamit talks about the Republican National Congress (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwoki on July 16, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Cigar)

Other attempts were made during the marathon to vote-Rome to make changes to the draft law, but none of them was able to overcome the 60 sound threshold in the upper room.

Democrats in the Senate tried to bow the draft law with amendments that targeted what they argued by reducing emergency alerts for harsh weather and disasters, and eroding Americans in America and isolating them by creating a news desert with discounts in public broadcasting, among other things.

“Why are we talking about severing emergency alerts,” said Senator Maria Kaneuel, Dr. “These 1,000 times have been warned of telling people that their lives are in danger.”

Senator Patty Murray, the largest democratic of the Senate Credit Committee, claimed that many at stake are more than spending discounts.

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Democrats in Washington accused that legislators were also “voting on how the Senate spends the rest of this year, will we just cancel the cancellation, because we know that Ross had only itching to send more.”

Senator Eric Schmidt, R. Mao, reprimanded Democrats’ assurances against the bill, and depicted legislation as a means of legislators to “correct” waste spending that could not be green.

Fox News Digital told that what Democrats want to do is “maintaining the largest possible amount of this money for their pets projects that have woke up.”

“They were able to do this for four years,” he said. “Thus, as you know, I know, Deis in Burma, Guatemalan Sex Changes and the Hiti voter identifier, which is ridiculous, because Democrats do not support the voter identifier here, but they are ready to pay for it in another country.”

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2025-07-17 06:31:00

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