Trump $ 9.4 billion cuts with foreign aid and public broadcasting test Clear Senate

President Donald Trump’s refuge of billions of funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting narrowly exceeded his first obstacle to the Senate, but he still faces a rocky route to come with dissent among the ranks of the GOP in the Senate.

The leaders of the GOP of the Senate hoped that an agreement to carve $ 400 million in global funding on the prevention of HIV and AIDS will obtain some of the retained on board. However, this reduced the selected cuts from 9.4 billion to $ 9 billion.

But a trio of Senate Republicans joined all the Democrats in the Senate to vote against the progress of the bill of the Senate credits committee, which forced the vice-president JD Vance to vote.

Trump’s cancellation package in Yank Bank approved funding for foreign aid programs and public broadcasting. But some Republicans of the Senate sounded the alarm and want changes to the bill before reaching the finish line.

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

President Donald Trump gives journalists a boost while walking on the South lawn arriving at the White House on July 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP / Jose Luis Magana)

The bill that left the committee on Tuesday includes just under $ 8 billion in the American agency for international development (USAID) and more than a billion dollars from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the financing arm supported by the government for NPR and PBS.

The successful test of the Republicans intervenes after blamed the management office and the budget director Russ VoughtWho worked to strengthen support and apply the white house pressure to roll the ball on the bill.

“We agree with the adjustments,” said Vought. “It’s always an excellent package, $ 9 billion, (it’s) significantly the same package, and the Senate must work its will.”

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Leader of the majority of the Senate John Thune. (Getty)

Although the concerns are always raised concerning other aspects of the packaging of spending reductions during the closed -door meeting, the head of the majority of the Senate John Thune, RS.D., believed that the size of the Cups of the Bush era’s Emergency Plan for the relief of AIDS (PEPFAR) has helped to mitigate the concerns of the legislators.

But the changes did not influence all the Senate Republicans. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, constantly said “no” when asked if the sculpture Pepfar helped obtain his support and argued: “I would like to do a legislative.”

“What crazy, what crazy,” she said. “What did we do here? We have done a reconciliation bill. We are making a bill on cancellations. We make appointments. The appointments are important, but let’s legislate.”

And senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, said that she loved changes, but finally decided to vote against the progress of the bill during her first obstacle. Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Also joined to vote against the bill.

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Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, talks to media members after the Senate Republican Policy Lunch at the American Capitol in Washington on June 4, 2025. (Getty Images)

He is now going to another procedural vote which, in the event of success, will open 10 hours of time of total debate on the bill and will eventually prepare the ground for a voting-a-rama, where legislators on each side of the aisle can offer an unlimited number of modifications to the package.

But, lecturer of the room Mike JohnsonR-La., Clearly said that he would prefer that the Senate does not change any change in the bill.

However, this request has already fallen into the ears of a deaf – as it did during the budget reconciliation process which took place in the upper chamber last month.

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These requests already have tax hawks in the growled house, but as the process of budget reconciliation before him, a modified rupture package will probably slip into the GOP of the house and on the desk of Trump.