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Clavback of Arabian President Donald Trump passed through his first hurdle in the Senate in funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, but it still faces a rocky road with dissatisfaction between the Senate GOP rank.
The Senate GOP leaders hoped that an agreement to carve a $ 400 million in the funding of global HIV and AIDS prevention would get some holdouts on the board. However, the expected cuts from doing so decreased from $ 9.4 billion to $ 9 billion.
But a trio of Senate Republican joined the Senate Appropriation Committee with all the Senate Democrats to vote against the bill, which required Vice President JD Vance to cast a decisive vote.
Trump’s rescue package will be funded from Bank Congress for foreign aid programs and public broadcasting. But some Senate Republican has played the alarm and wants changes in the bill before reaching the finish line.
Trump’s Senate GOP Bracese for Test vote on Trump’s $ 9.4B clobac package
President Donald Trump gives a thumb to journalists as he moves in the South lawn on 13 July 2025 when he arrives at the White House in Washington. (AP/Jose Louis Magana)
The bill to be out of the committee on Tuesday is more than $ 8 billion in cuts from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the government -backed Funding Funding Arm Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is more than $ 1 billion.
Republican’s successful Test comes after Hadling with Vote Office of Management and Budget Director JuiceWho worked to apply support and pressure from the White House to rolish the ball on the bill.
“We are fine with adjustment,” he said. “This is still a great package, $ 9 billion, [it’s] The same package, and the Senate must work at its own will. ,
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Senate majority leader John Theun. (Getty)
While concerns were still raised about other aspects of the cost cut package during the closed door meeting, the prime leader of the Senate John Thyun, Rs.
But the changes did not leave all the Senate Republicans. Sen Lisa Murkowski, R-Lusca, clearly stated that “no” when asked if Pepfar Carvout helped to gain his support and argued, “I would like to make some laws.”
“What’s a crazy thing, what a crazy thing,” he said. “What are we doing here? We bill a reconciliation. We are doing a rescue bill. We are nomination. Nominations are important, but let’s make laws.”
And Sen Susan Colins, R-Men, said that he liked the change, but eventually decided to vote against the bill pursuing the bill through his first obstacle. He argued in a statement that the bill had a “big problem – no one really knows what the program is lacking in.”
“It’s not because we do not have time to review the bill,” Coalins said. “Instead, the problem is that OMB has never provided details that will normally be part of this process.”
Sen Mich McConel, R-K., also joined to vote against the bill. Fox News arrived at his office for a statement on his decision to vote against the digital package.
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Susan Colins, a Republican Senator of Main, talks to media members after the Senate Republican Policy Lunch at US Capital in Washington on 4 June 2025. (Getty image)
Now it still moves towards another procedural vote, which when successful, will open 10 hours a time of the total debate on the bill and eventually determine the platform for Vote-e-Ram, where the legalists on both sides of the corridor can offer an unlimited number amendment in the package.
But, house speaker Mike JohnsonR-La., Clarified that he would like the Senate, will not make any changes in the bill.
However, this request had already fallen on deaf ears – as the budget reconciliation was done in the upper chamber last month during the process.
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Those demands already have fiscal hooks in the house, but before the budget reconciliation process, a modified rescue package house will glide through GOP and on Trump’s desk.