Washington – The Senate could proceed on Tuesday at a request to the White House on Tuesday, which was $ 9.4 billion in funds for international assistance and public broadcasting, as the Congress faced Friday’s deadline to work on Friday.
Known as a rescue package, White House in June Requested This Congress cancels the Arabs in this funding, which was approved to spend earlier, start a clock on a process that gives MPs 45 days to work.
This step tries to permanent the cut in some expenses of the Government Efficiency Department, in which the primary focus of the package reduces foreign aid. But this will effectively cut federal funding for NPR and PBS.
South Dakota Republican, Senate Magority Leader John Theun said that he hoped to hold the first procedural votes on Tuesday, although he was still interacting with some members who are resistant to pulling all funding back.
Last month, Sanction house Request, overcome the opposition from all democrats and four Republicans.
Rescue package
Rescue requests will cut $ 8.3 billion along with the United States Agency for International Development, or other international aid programs for USAID – from efforts of peace system to refugee assistance and climate projects. In addition, a proposed $ 1.1 billion included in the package, cuts for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, private non -profit organizations that serve as the steward of funding to NPR and PBS. The White House has targeted the institutions, claiming that they have spread the waking, awakened propaganda as “news”. ”
But some Senate Republicans have opposed the components of the package, such as cutting a program aimed at combating HIV and AIDS globally.
Started by former President George W. Bush, the President’s emergency plan for AIDS Relief, or Peppar, has been credited to save millions of people worldwide. Main Republican, Sen Susan Colins told reporters last week that she wanted to attack Pepfar rescue, saying, “I can’t imagine why we want to end that program.”
The Senate Application Committee Chairman Collins pushed back the office of Management and Budget’s Director Russell Watt for the panel in June that “this rescue package will not have any life” and “Currently anyone receiving lifestyle treatment will continue to receive that treatment.”
“When you look at Pepfar, you are finishing a lot of prevention programs,” Coalins said, also questioning whether packages will harm the efforts to prevent tuberculosis, polio and malaria, and what will be its effect on maternal and child health programs that help in feeding malnourished children. “All programs that have proved effective.”
“These are not only the right task to do for human reasons, but they are incredible tools of soft power,” said by Collins.
Others have expressed concern Local radio and television stations cutEspecially in rural areas where they take extra importance as a means of communicating emergency messages.
Sen Mike Rounds, a Dakshin Dakota Republican, who also sits on the Appropriation Committee, told reporters last week He is not comfortable with some provisions such as cut into public broadcasting, “that’s why we are proposing changes.”
Rounds pointed to the original American tribes, who have a public radio system that depends much on funding and will be targeted under the proposal of the White House, saying that the Senate Republican is working with the management and budget office, “to find a way to carry forward funding for those radio stations.” He said that the target is not to abolish several provisions within the rescue package, but “especially to take care of those who were in some of these rural areas,” pointing to stations in South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Alaska.
Thun said on Monday that an amendment process was being discussed on the rescue package.
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“I am hoping that as we come on that bill, we can see some savings that we have already completed in reconciliation,” last week, mentioning the large scale tax and spending package which the Congress approved earlier this month.
Amendment in the package would mean that the house will have to sign changes. And with Friday’s deadline, the time is ending to do so before the request ends. Louisiana Republican, House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Monday that he hoped that Senate would stick to the House-oriented package.
“I think you have received to respect the request of the White House, and this is what we have done,” Johnson said.
In the Senate, rescue bills are not subject to the 60-votes limit required to advance most laws, only a simple majority requires. But with just 53 Republican, leaders of the Senate GOP can only lose a handful of their members to approve the package.
President Trump weighed in rescue at the end of last week, said in one Post Truth social that it is “very important that all Republicans follow my recipe bill,” especially citing public broadcasting cuts. The President warned that any Republican that does not support clobback in funding, “I will not support or support.”
Meanwhile, rescue push has expressed disappointment among the Democrats, who have very little ability to stand on their way. But the fight for an upcoming expenses is another story. Democrats have started suggesting that the already approved Congress’s efforts to bring back the funds of the GOP may have an impact on the government’s desire to work in the corridor on the government’s financing below the road.
Each year, the Congress approves funds to keep the federal government operational to the federal government before distributing government agencies and programs. The rescue process allows the Congress to cancel the money that the federal government has not yet spent.
The Senate’s minority leader Chak Shumar warned his colleagues about the upcoming rescue in a letter from the fourth of July, arguing that the path of the package “would be one affected by the” bipartine investment process. ” The New York Democrat called it “absurd” for the GOP, so that the Democrats can be expected to engage in a bilateral appropriation process that can be reduced by the rescue.
“Republican, in fact, the Congress has proposed to interact on bipartisan deals in the committee room, while they retreat in a backback for the purely biased plan of Rubrostamp President Trump, which requires a simple majority to tear only one agreement,” Shumar wrote.
In response, Thyun said on the Senate floor last week that he threatened to shut down the government “disappointed” Shumar, “saying that he” hope that he is not a condition of Senate Democrats “.
When asked about the possibility of a shutdown, Shumor said, “Ask Republican why they are going on this path.”
“We are doing everything that we can do to continue the bipartisan appropriation process, and they are reduced with rescue,” Shumar said.
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And Christina Korujo contributed to this report.
