The Senate Republicans were divided on the recovery of Trump of several billion dollars of the financing of the “Woke” program

The Senate Republicans are preparing to advance a scratch package of several billion dollars from President Donald Trump, but dissent among the ranks threatens to thwart the process.

Head of the majority of the Senate John ThuneRS.D., intends to set up the $ 9.4 billion dollar attractions of Trump, which would recruit funding approved by the congress for a variety of so -called “awakened” programs that finance foreign aid and public broadcasting.

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Leader of the majority of the Senate John Thune after the Senate lunches at the American Capitol on June 24, 2025. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

However, a handful of Senate Republicans collected more than $ 8.3 billion in discounts from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and more than a billion dollars of the Public Diffusion Society (CPB), the funding arm supported by the Government for NPR and PBS.

The bill should have its first test vote on Tuesday, but questions remain on the question of whether Thune has the votes.

The Senate Republicans should meet the management director and the budget director Russ Voughtwhich has become an almost constant presence on the hill during the process of budgetary reconciliation, in order to strengthen the support of the legislators concerned.

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Senator Susan Collins speaks to the press on November 6, 2022 in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. (Mark Makela / Getty Images)

In publicly, meaning. Susan Collins, R-Maine and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, expressed reservations on the package, in particular on cuts offered at the Emergency Plan of the Bush era for the relief of AIDS (PEPFAR) and the public broadcasting fund.

Collins said that she always had concerns about the bill and that she was shy to find out if she would support her advancement – when she was asked if she would vote to move him, she smiles that the Senate’s elevator door closed.

Senator Mike Rounds, RS.D., was also concerned about the bill due to oblique public broadcasting bars which could have negative effects on tribal radio stations in rural areas, but he moved to support the invoice after obtaining guarantees that $ 10 million in Green New Deal silver could be shifted to help pay for subsidies The shelter.

However, he did not know if there was enough support to move the bill in his first test.

“I don’t have a head account on it, but my concerns were taken care of,” he said.

And there are more legislators who expressed deprived their shortcuts about the bill. Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., said that there were “several members” who had raised a problem with the package, and he too would like more information on the internal functioning of spending reductions.

“It is important that we succeed on this package, because I hope it is only a warm-up for what should be tens of billions of dollars in termination,” he said.

Thune cannot afford to lose three votes and will not receive any help from the Democrats of the Senate in another hyper-partisan process.

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President Donald Trump is making gestures as he climbs on board Air Force One to Morristown, New Jersey, July 6, 2025. (AP photo / Jacquelyn Martin)

A modification process is in the form of another voting-a-rama, but changing the bill could have consequences in the House, where the Republicans warn their colleagues in the upper room to quench the rafbacks as proposed by the White House.

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Thune said that he and his management team had discussed problems with the package and tried to modify the changes in the legislation before he reaches the ground.

“I agree with that, but I think we have colleagues who would like to see changes perhaps modest, so we try to know if there is a way to follow that makes us 51 and remains consistent,” he told journalists.