'long Overdue': Senate Republicans Ram Through Trump's Clawback Package With Cuts To Foreign Aid, Npr

Senate Republicans blasted done Democratic and soul guidance to walk President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar clawback package early Thursday morning.

The $9 cardinal rescissions measure tees up cuts to "woke" spending connected overseas assistance programs and NPR and PBS that Congress antecedently approved. Republicans person sounded nan measure arsenic building connected their quest to guidelines retired waste, fraud and maltreatment successful nan national government.

SENATE MARCHES TOWARD PASSING TRUMP'S $9B CLAWBACK BILL AFTER DRAMATIC LATE-NIGHT VOTES

President Donald Trump smiles arsenic he meets pinch President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador successful nan Oval Office of nan White House April 14, 2025, successful Washington. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said that it was a ngo shared by nan GOP and Trump, whose Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified galore of nan cuts included successful nan package.  

"I admit each nan activity nan management has done successful identifying wasteful spending," Thune said. "And now it’s clip for nan Senate to do its portion to trim immoderate of that discarded retired of nan budget. It’s a mini but important measurement toward fiscal sanity that we each should beryllium capable to work together is agelong overdue."

The president’s rescissions package projected cutting conscionable awkward of $8 cardinal from nan U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and complete $1 cardinal from nan Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), nan government-backed backing limb for NPR and PBS.

TRUMP'S $9 BILLION CLAWBACK PASSES FIRST SENATE TEST, WHILE MORE HURDLES AWAIT

Sen. John Thune (R-SD), joined Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) (L) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), speaks astir nan Senate Democrats astatine nan U.S. Capitol connected September 29, 2021, successful Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

It’s apt nan first of galore to travel from nan White House.

Unlike nan erstwhile procedural votes, Vice President JD Vance was not needed to break a tie, pinch only 2 Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Susan Collins, R-Maine, joining each Senate Democrats to reason nan bill. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., voted against nan preceding procedural votes to beforehand nan package connected Tuesday night, but yet backed nan bill. 

It now heads to nan House, wherever Republicans person warned nan Senate to not make changes to nan package. But conscionable for illustration during nan fund reconciliation process earlier this month, nan warnings from House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and fiscal hawks fell connected deaf ears successful nan precocious chamber.

The Senate GOP's type of nan measure is so smaller, by astir $400 million, aft Senate leaders agreed to make a carveout that spared world Bush-era HIV and AIDS prevention funding.

SENATE GOP BRACES FOR TEST VOTE ON TRUMP'S $9.4B CLAWBACK PACKAGE

Senator Eric Schmitt speaks connected Day 2 of nan Republican National Convention (RNC), astatine nan Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee connected July 16, 2024.  (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

Other attempts were made during a marathon vote-a-rama process to make changes to nan bill, but nary were capable to surmount nan 60-vote period successful nan precocious chamber.

Senate Democrats tried to kneecap nan measure pinch amendments that targeted what they based on were cuts that would diminish emergency alerts for utmost upwind and disasters, erode America's and isolate agrarian Americans by creating news deserts pinch cuts to nationalist broadcasting, among others.

"Why are we talking astir cutting disconnected emergency alerts," Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash, said. "That's 1,000 times these stations were warned to show group that their lives were successful danger."

Sen. Patty Murray, nan apical Democrat connected nan Senate Appropriations Committee, contended that overmuch much was astatine liking than nan spending cuts.

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The Washington Democrat charged that lawmakers were besides "voting connected really nan Senate is going to walk nan remainder of this year, are we conscionable going to do rescission aft rescission, because we cognize Russ Vought is conscionable itching to nonstop america more."

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., rebuked Democrats' assertions against nan bill, and sounded nan authorities arsenic a measurement for lawmakers to "course correct" wasteful spending that shouldn’t person ever been green-lit.

He told Fox News Digital that what Democrats want to do is "keep arsenic overmuch of this money for their woke pet projects arsenic they can." 

"They were capable to do that for 4 years," he said. "That's really you sewage to, you know, DEIs successful Burma and Guatemalan activity changes and elector ID successful Haiti, which is ironic, because Democrats don't support elector ID here, but they're consenting to salary it for it successful different country."