The GOP Senate approves the bill to reduce foreign and public dissemination funds

The Senate Republicans exploded through democratic and internal opposition to pass the packet of scratches of several billion dollars from President Donald Trump early Thursday morning.

The Cancellation Bill of $ 9 billion reduces “awakened” expenses for foreign assistance programs and NPR and PBS that Congress previously approved. The Republicans presented the bill as based on their quest to eliminate waste, fraud and abuses in the federal government.

The Senate goes towards the transition from the billion dollar bill from Trump after dramatic votes at the end of the evening

President Donald Trump smiles as he meets President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the White House Oval Office on April 14, 2025, in Washington. (Win McNamee / Getty images)

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., said it was a mission shared by the GOP and Trump, of which the Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has identified many reductions included in the package.

“I appreciate all the work that the administration has done to identify unnecessary expenses,” said Thune. “And now it is time for the Senate to do its share to reduce part of this waste from the budget. It is a small but important step towards the fiscal mental health that we all should be able to suit for a long time.”

The President’s cancellation package has proposed to reduce a little less than $ 8 billion from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and more than a billion dollars from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the funding arm supported by the Government for NPR and PBS.

Trump’s $ 9 billion claw succeeds in the first Senate test, while more obstacles are waiting

Senator John Thune (R-SD), joined Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) (L) and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), talks about the Democrats du Senate at the American Capitol on September 29, 2021 in Washington. (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

He is probably the first to come from the White House.

Unlike previous procedural votes, Vice-President JD Vance was not necessary to break equality, with only two Republicans, the sensations of Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, joining all the Democrats of the Senate to oppose the bill. Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Voted against the previous procedural votes to advance the package on Tuesday evening, but finally supported the bill.

He now goes to the House, where the Republicans have warned the Senate not to make changes to the package. But just like during the process of budget reconciliation earlier this month, the warnings of the president of the Mike Johnson room, R-La., And the tax hawks fell into the ears of a deaf in the upper room.

The version of the Senate GOP of the bill is indeed lower, of approximately $ 400 million, after the leaders of the Senate agreed to make a sculpture which spared international funding for the prevention of HIV and AIDS.

The GOP Senate accumulates the test of testing on the packet of claws of $ 9.4 billion in Trump

Senator Eric Schmitt holds day 2 of the National Republican Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 16, 2024. (Reuters / Mike Segar)

Other attempts were made during a marathon-a-rama voting process to make changes to the bill, but none was able to overcome the threshold of 60 voting in the upper chamber.

The Democrats of the Senate tried to eat the bill with amendments that were targeting what they supported were cuts that would decrease emergency alerts for weather conditions and extreme disasters, erode the Americans and isolate rural Americans by creating deserts of news with cuts to public broadcasting, among others.

“Why are we talking about cutting emergency alerts,” said senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. “This represents 1,000 times these stations have been warned to tell people that their lives were in danger.”

Senator Patty Murray, the best democrat of the Senate credits committee, argued that much more was at stake than spending discounts.

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The Washington Democrat has charged that the legislators “also voted on how the Senate was going to pass the rest of this year, we are just going to be terminated, because we know that Russ Vought is just impatient to send us more.”

Senator Eric Schmitt, RO., Reprimanded the claims of the Democrats against the bill, and presented the legislation as a means for legislators to “consume” unnecessary expenses “which should never have been green.

He told Fox News Digital that what the Democrats wanted to do was “keeping as much about this money for their wake -up pet projects as they can”.

“They were able to do it for four years,” he said. “This is how you have arrived, you know, from inside in Burma and Guatemah sexual changes and an identity document of voters in Haiti, which is ironic, because the Democrats do not support the identification of voters here, but they are ready to pay it in another country.”