The Republicans guarantee a close victory on a expenditure cancellation package of $ 9 billion

What can you get $ 9.4 billion?

3G Capital recently bought giant shoe skechers for $ 9.4 billion.

$ 9.4 billion could cover your rent for a fairly beautiful apartment in New York for more than 40,000 years.

Yes, it’s just you and the cockroaches by then.

Or, you could pay the cost of each major disaster in the past four decades – ranging from Chernobyl to Fukushima via Hurricane Sandy.

“ For a long time ”: The Republicans of the Senate RAM via the Trump claw package with Aid Foreign Cups, NPR

But $ 9.4 billion is not much when thrown against nearly 7 billions of dollars in annual spending by the federal government.

And it is really not much money when you consider that the United States is to slip into the red up to 37 billions of dollars.

Which brings us to the Congress plan to cancel expenses. In other words, a measure of the Republicans and the Trump administration to cancel the expenditure legislators already appropriate in March. The Chamber and the Senate now return to money legislators have pushed the company’s door for public broadcasting and foreign aid programs under USAID. The original proposal reduced $ 9.4 billion. But this figure decreased to $ 9 billion – after the Senate restored money for “Pepfar”, a George W. Bush era program by President George W. Bush to fight AIDS in the world.

In other words, you may have a few thousand years from your rent controlled by the rent in New York. Of course, it depends on what the Democratic candidate of Mayor Zorhan Mamdani decides to do, if he wins the election this fall.

Anyway, let us return to the expenses of the congress. Or “non -spending”.

The house adopted the original version of the bill in June 216-214. Flip One Vote and the bill would have failed on equality 215-215. Then it was in the Senate. The Republicans had to summon the vice-president Vance to Capitol Hill to break a Logjam on two procedural votes to send the bill of cancellation of expenses and launch a debate. Republicans have an advantage of 53-47 in the Senate. But the former head of the majority of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, R-ky., With meaning. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska and Susan Collins, R-Maine, voted Nay-producing equality 50-50.

Fox is said that some Senate Republicans get tired of McConnell opposing the GOP – and President Trump – on various questions. This includes votes not to start the debate on the bill of cancellation of expenses as well as his vote against the confirmation of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in January.

“He was the leader. He always told us that we have to stay together,” said a GOP senator who asked for anonymity. “Now is he voting as he wants? How is time going to Glow.”

Note that McConnell led the Republicans of the Senate in early January.

But McConnell finally voted for the legislation when the Senate approved it 51-48 to 2:28 a.m. HE Thursday morning.

Murkowski and Collins were the only Noes. The services of Vice-President Vance were not necessary due to McConnell’s vote and the absence of senator Tina Smith, D-Minn. She fell ill and was admitted to George Washington Hospital for exhaustion.

As for the senior senator from Alaska, a GOP senator called him “Murkowski fatigue”.

“She always asked. She always wants more,” groaned a republican of the Senate.

Murkowski obtained an agreement on rural hospitals in exchange for his vote in favor of the big bill earlier this month. However, Murkowski did not obtain more specificity on the Dogene cups or helped in rural public radio stations in Alaska on the expenses section.

The Senate to debate the bill on claws of $ 9 billion after dramatic votes at the end of the evening

“My vote is guided by the imperative to come from the Alaskians. I have a vote that I am free to launch, with or without the support of the president. My obligation is towards my voters and towards the Constitution,” said Murkowski. “I do not disagree that NPR over the years has tilted more partisan. This can be addressed. But you do not need to empty the whole company for public broadcasting.”

In a press release, Collins castigated the Trump administration for a lack of specificity as to the accuracy of the request for involvement. Collins, which chairs the Senate credits committee in charge of the Federal Stockings of the Stock Exchange, also criticized the administration a few months ago for a shortage of details in the president’s budget.

“The attached package has a big problem – nobody really knows what programs reductions are there. It is not because we have not had time to review the bill,” Collins said in a statement. “Instead, the problem is that the OMB (the management and budget office) has never provided details that would normally be part of this process.”

Collins was not the only republican senator to worry about how the administration presented the expense reduction package at the congress. The president of the Senate Armed Services Committee Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Worried about the congress assigning the power of the administration bag. But unlike Collins, Wicker supported the package.

The Director of the American Management and Budget Office (OMB) Russell (Russ) Vought speaks to journalists outside the west wing of the White House on July 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)

“If we do this again, please give us specific information about how the cuts will come. Let’s not be used to this,” said Wicker. “If you come back to us again from the executive branch, give us the specific amounts of the specific programs that will be deleted.”

DOGE recommended the cuts. In fact, most of the expenses targeted by DOGE only come into force if the congress acts. But even the $ 9.4 billion turned out to be difficult to reduce.

“We should be able to do it in our sleep. But it seems that there is enough opposition,” said Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., On Fox Business.

Thus, for court votes, the GOP leaders recovered $ 400 million for Pepfar.

“There was a lot of interest among our members to do something about the Pepfar issue,” said the head of the majority of the Senate John Thune, Rs.d. “You are still talking about an attractions of $ 9 billion – even with this small modification.”

The objective of silencing public dissemination supported certain Republicans.

Homeland Security interrupt $ 18.5 million in taxpayers for “radical” programs

“Northern Dakota public radio – about 26% of their budget is federal funding. For me, it is more an indictment than what is a need,” said senator Kevin Cramer, Rn.d.

But let’s go back to the $ 9 billion. It is a fraction of a tenth of one percent of all federal funding. And DOGE recommended more than one dollars of cups.

“What is it said for the party if it cannot even adopt this bill, this reduced amount of money?” Yours really asked Senator John Kennedy, R-La.

The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, arrives to speak to the media members of the American Capitol in Washington, DC, United States, Thursday, July 17, 2025. Republicans should succeed in their quest for decades of decades drawn from the effectiveness effort of the department of Elon Musk. Photographer: Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images

“I think we are going to lose a lot of credibility. And we should,” replied Kennedy.

But the room had to synchronize with the Senate because it changed the bill – eliminate the Cup for the financing of AIDS. The conservatives of the Chamber were not delighted that the Senate blocked them again – just two weeks after the major renovations to the version of the Grand and Beautiful Bill Chamber. But they accepted their fate.

“It is disappointing that we have 37 billions of dollars of debt. It made me low fruit,” said representative Eric Burlison, R-MO. “At the end of the day, I’m going to take a base, right? It’s better than nothing.”

The Director of the Budget of the White House, Russ Vought, is expected to send other requests to cancel the expenses to the congress in the coming months. The objective is to target deeper discounts of expenditure recommended by DOGE.

But that is not added well for future attraction bills if it is a battle to reduce 9 billions of dollars.

What can you get money? For the Republicans, it is not much.

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The Republicans were swaying for fences with spending cuts.

But in the political box score, it is recorded as a simple blow.