The Senate on Thursday voted $ 9 billion in federal funding for global support programs to return $ 9 billion to the corporation, sent by President Trump to the House for the final vote.
A 51–48 vote known as a rescue package is a win for Trump, who vowed to shrink the size of the federal government, and who signed a large, beautiful bill act earlier this month and set fire to the democrats to add $ 3.3 trillion loans in the next decade.
After voting for more than 12 hours on the amendment, the senators passed the package on Thursday at 2 pm on Thursday.
This victory is more symbolic than anything, as it will cut only tenth of 1 percent from the federal budget.
Nevertheless, Republicans see it as significant progress.
“This is a small but important step towards fiscal sanctity that we all must be able to agree,” said John Thyun (Rs.), Leader of the Senate majority.
Trump failed to get a $ 15 billion rescue package during his first term, when after batting at the Senate Republican proposal.
This time, Trump is working with a large Senate Republican majority and a GOP conference that is usually more responsible for their agenda than seven years ago.
Thune was able to get Trump’s latest rescue bill on the finish line, even though two senior Republicans of the Appropriation Committee “not.”
Senate Appropriation Committee Chairman Susan Colins (R-Men) and Sen Lisa Murkovski (R-Alska), Chairman of the Internal Appropriation Deputy Committee, opposed the package.
Sen Mich McConel (R-Ky.), Chairman of Defense Appropriation Deputy Committee, “No” votes on two procedural votes On Tuesday night but voted in favor of the last route.
Democrats Sen was recalling Sen Tina Smith (D-Mainon), who was admitted to the hospital after feeling unwell.
On several occasions before the final vote, Collins expressed concern about what he saw as a failure of the White House to present enough details about how the funding rescue would be implemented. He raised the issue directly at an lunch meeting with the management office and budget director Ras Wout on Tuesday.
Senate Republican leaders raised votes after the White House agreed to amendment Remove Pepfar in cuts of $ 400 million from package More than 20 years ago, Global anti-aids initiative launched by former President George W. Bush.
Thyun told reporters on Tuesday that the deepest cut of Pepfar was the top priority of several GOP senators.
The bill will still deduct about $ 8 billion from the classification of international programs, including development assistance, financial assistance funds, USAID global health programs and programs to assist the victims of refugees and international disasters.
This Corporation for Public Broadcasting will cut more than $ 1 billion from $ 1 billion, which will hit rural radio stations that depends more on federal funding than their big city counterparts.
Republican cut public broadcasting, something that Trump proposed during his first term, but failed to achieve a major victory.
“I hope the administration keeps sending us the rescue package, this is the only way I can see us to reduce the expenses,” said Sen John Kennedy (R-La.).
“Corporation for Public Broadcasting, we are going to bite him like a dead stump,” he said, pointing to the social media post of Catherine Maher, CEO of National Public Radio since 2020, saying “America is accustomed to white domination.”
But some Republicans, including Murkovski, expressed concern that defines of public broadcasting would cause damage to radio stations that are often the only source of information during natural disasters in their home state.
He reported on Wednesday that a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake in the Aleutian series has forced communities to vacate 700 miles along the coast of Alaska, and many of those inhabitants rely on public radio for news.
“Seven-point-three [magnitude] Alaska and Tsunami Warning Earthquake. You know how I got this information? From public broadcast, “he said.
Sen Amy Clobuhar (D-Mainon) said At Hill Nation Summit on Wednesday Cuts can exclude rural radio stations in their home state.
“These rural stations are often for the lives of these communities when it comes to emergency alert,” she said.
“These are the things that, they make small sounds, but they are the ones that bring the communities together,” he said.
The Senate Democratic Leader Chak Shumar (DN.Y.) stated that the law would have “destructive results”.
“This bill will harm the US farmers and researchers and businesses, make the world an easy place, unfortunately, for terrorist recruitment, and communist reward China and [Russian President] Vladimir Putin, ”Shumar asked about cuts in global allied programs.
“Republicans are moving without a clue, how these unwanted cuts will be implemented,” he announced.
Democrats tried to amend the law and failed to separate various federal programs from cuts.
Sen. An amendment sponsored by the Chris Cons (D-Deal) failed by 49 to 50 votes to mold $ 496 million for international disaster relief, although Colins, Mercovsky and McConal voted for it.
And Sen. A proposal sponsored by Mazi Hirono (D-Hawai) failed by a vote of 48 to 51 with instructions to restore the Bill for public broadcasting funding to recommend the recommendation committee.
Sen Kori Booker (DN.J.) offered an amendment to attack a $ 785 million for feed the future program, a global hunger and food safety initiative, praised the program to “promote life, promote self -sufficiency” and help to help create new opportunities for business. It failed by a vote of 48 to 51.
Sen Mark Kelly (D-Eries) offered the corporation to reduce the cuts for public broadcasting and global health programs. It would also have protected NATO outstanding and funding to Ukraine.
Kelly offered the amendment of Colins after the Men Senator decided, she did not get a chance to be adopted by the House.
Republican voted to revise the amendment from 51 to 47.
Shumor last month warned in a “Dear Aide” letter that Republican had pushed to save funding that the Congress had agreed on bipartisan basis in the past. Can threaten possibilities Reaching any expense deals at the end of this year.
He said that Republican Senator knows that it is “absurd” that “work as a business” compared to Democrats and engage in a bipartisan appropriation process to fund the government, while they plot to pass the concurrently biased rescue bill. “
This law is now in the House, where MPs will have to pass it by Friday or otherwise the management and budget office will be forced to release their grip on the funding targeted to rescue.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Thyun described the revised language to restore funding as a “small modification” for the Bush-era Anti-AIDS initiative and hoped that the House would accept the work of the Senate.
