Washington – House Republican approved a package after midnight on Friday, with $ 9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting funding, sent to President Trump’s desk.
The Congress defeated the day limit of the day on Friday to pass the bill, known as a rescue request, after which the money will be basically spent as intent.
Efforts to issue files related to child sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein The movement on the bill stopped for hours.
The House combined the vote on the final route with a procedural vote, allowing members to pass the package quickly. It was mostly passed in party-line votes, with 216 voting in favor of polling and 213. Two Republican opposed this: Reps. Ohio’s Mike Turner and Bryan Fitzpatric of Pennsylvania.
The bill aims to a target of about $ 8 billion for foreign aid programs, including the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID. The package also includes about 1 billion dollars in funding cuts for Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports public radio and television stations including NPR and PBS.
Mr. Trump voted True social On Friday morning, exposing the cut in public media funding.
“Republican has tried to do this for 40 years, and failed … but no more,” he wrote. “It’s big !!!”
House speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Friday that he was “happy to send the President’s desk for signature, and he would quickly sign it.”
Prior to the floor vote, the package was to be obtained through the House Rules Committee, where there was a heated debate on the demands of Democrats for votes on the measures related to Epstein. All one Republican of the committee voted against similar amendments when he was first presented earlier this week who criticized those who want to release documents on Epstein.
The dispute has divided Mr. Trump’s Aadhaar since his administration. A memorandum released Earlier this month, it was said that Epstein had no “customer list” and died of suicide in 2019. Some Republicans have pushed for more revelations in Epstein case, although Mr. Trump is Called the dispute a hoax.”
Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, defended the members of the GOP committee on Thursday afternoon, saying they were incorrectly taking heat.
“They are trying to stick to their jobs and take procedural rules to the floor so that we can do our work and defend the American people,” Johnson said.
In early Friday, Johnson claimed that the White House and House Republican are on the same page how to handle the dispute around Epstein files.
“There is no daylight between the President and the House Republican over transparency, and it is very clear that he wants to start all reliable information, reliable evidence, people so that people can decide. We rely on American people and their decisions.”
The Democrats wanted a vote on a bipartisan remedy introduced by the Republican rape. Thomas Massey of Kentki and Democratic Rape of California.
Instead, Republican voted against the attempt and offered a proposal that does not take any legal weight to make the files public.
The rape gym McGawn of the Massachusetts of the House Rules Committee’s top Democrats said that if the Trump administration did not comply with non-comprehensive resolution, there would be no support.
McGawn said, “The resolution they are presenting is a cover vote and I would be surprised that if they also bring it to the floor,” McGawn said.
Republican rape. Virginia Foxx of Northern Carolina, chairman of the committee, said it would depend on the leader of the majority whether the proposal receives a floor vote.
As the committee debated the release of the files, Mr. Trump announced that he asked the Attorney General Palm Bandy “to produce any and all relevant grand jury testimony, subject to the approval of the court.” Request came after Wall Street Journal Published a letter Mr. Trump allegedly wrote to Epstein for his birthday in 2003, which the President called “fake”.
House Minority Leader Hakim Zeffries will not say if he planned to delay a final vote, unless she exercises her rights until she wanted, a power that she made a power. Record-breaking speech earlier this month.
“I hope I speak for more than a minute,” the New York Democrat quipped.
Jeffrees ended speaking for about 15 minutes.
After criticism, Senate passed a bill in the early hours of Thursday
After one hour of vote chain, Senate Narrowly passed a modified version On Thursday at the request of Mr. Trump’s rescue, first, it was sent to the House, which approved a large package of deduction last month.
The Trump administration is about 400 million dollars smaller than the previous month’s home version of previous month after the Trump administration agreed not to cut funds for the global AIDS prevention program to reduce some concerns of the Republican dissatisfies.
Some senators are also concerned about the implications of PBS and NPR cuts for rural areas, where many residents are dependent on public radio stations for emergency alerts. The administration promised to find money elsewhere to reduce the cuts in rural stations to win over critics.
In a statement, the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting said that the decision to abolish his federal money would force several local public radio stations to shut down and would have “deep, permanent, negative results for every American”. ,
Although all but two Republican Senators supported the final route, some said they had reservation about doing so, especially because they did not get details from the administration how extensive cuts affected specific programs.
“I suspect that we are going to find out that there are some things that are going to regret us,” Republican Sen Tilis of Northern Carolina said before voting for the package on Wednesday.
Republican sensor. Main’s Susan Colins and Alaska’s Lisa Murkovsky criticized the Congress, saying that she was seeding the White House and reducing the role of its budget monitoring, and arguing that any funding cuts should be solved during the annual appropriation process. Both Colins and Murkovsky voted against the package.
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