Senate poised to hand Trump $9B in cuts, second big legislative victory

[mystery-ak]

 Senate poised to hand Trump $9B in cuts, second big legislative victory
by Alexander Bolton - 07/16/25 6:00 AM ET

Senate Republicans say they have the votes to pass a package of $9 billion in spending cuts, which would give President Trump another big legislative victory in less than a month after GOP leaders quelled a revolt from members of the powerful Appropriations Committee.

Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), told reporters Tuesday that the so-called rescissions package now has enough votes to pass the Senate after he and the Senate GOP leaders agreed to an amendment to remove cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the global initiative launched by President George W. Bush in 2003 to combat AIDS.

Vought, the administration’s chief budget watchdog, also worked out a side deal with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) to redirect money in the Interior Department to help approximately 28 radio stations across 14 states that broadcast onto tribal lands who are at risk of being hurt by $1.1 billion in cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

As a result of the last-minute dealmaking, the overall size of the rescissions package is expected to shrink slightly from $9.4 billion to $9 billion.

Getting Rounds to agree to vote for the package is a big win for the White House and Senate Republican leaders, as they can only afford to lose three GOP votes and still pass the package.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, had expressed misgivings over supporting the bill before it came to the Senate floor.

Collins announced early last month that she did not support rescissions to PEPFAR and global health programs while Murkowski said she had problems with the cuts to public broadcasting.

Senate Republicans control a 53-to-47-seat majority and can rely on Vice President Vance to break a tie vote.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5402834-senate-gop-passage-spending-cuts/

[Bigun]

It's a drop in the ocean but a start never-the-less.

[DefiantMassRINO]

A nickel is a lot of money to a man who does not have a penny to his name.

It's a start.

[mountaineer]

Did the Turtle even know what was happening?

Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
🚨Meet the three Republican senators that voted no on President Trump’s DOGE rescissions package which includes $9 billion in cuts to USAID, NPR and PBS: @SenatorCollins  @SenMcConnell  @lisamurkowski
8:54 PM · Jul 15, 2025

[libertybele]

Did the Turtle even know what was happening?

Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
🚨Meet the three Republican senators that voted no on President Trump’s DOGE rescissions package which includes $9 billion in cuts to USAID, NPR and PBS: @SenatorCollins  @SenMcConnell  @lisamurkowski
8:54 PM · Jul 15, 2025

The usual GOPe idiots.

[bilo]

It's a drop in the ocean but a start never-the-less.

I think it's disgraceful that passing a 9 billion cut is so hard.

I really like everything Pres. Trump is trying to do, but after this hassle over such a tiny cut he needs to start using impoundment and fight it out at the SCOTUS. Congress has made it clear they are worthless.

[mystery-ak]

Trump Wins Again: Senate Passes $9bn in Cuts to Global Aid, Public Broadcasting

Simon Kent 17 Jul 2025

A $9 billion package of federal spending cuts aimed at public broadcasting and overseas aid was passed by the U.S. Senate early Thursday morning in yet another sweeping legislative victory for President Donald Trump.

The Financial Times reports broadcasting institutions NPR and PBS would lose their flow of taxpayer dollars when the package, which the Republican-led Senate approved after 2 a.m. by 51 votes to 48, is signed into law.

The bill also shuts off funding for foreign aid grants for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) once final approval by the House of Representatives is given after a vote due this week. The legislation must pass by a Friday deadline.

NPR and PBS have long been positioned as staunch left-wing opponents to the Republican agenda even as Trump vowed to deliver on his promise to drain the swamp in Washington, DC, and embrace fiscal sanity over a never-ending flow of taxpayer funds to public institutions.

The bill embraces sweeping cuts of up to $8 billion in foreign aid including to global health programs, migration and refugee assistance alongside international disaster relief.

GOP leaders said the vote was a symbolic victory that underscored the Republican-held Congress’s willingness to cut federal spending they viewed as inappropriate and wasteful.

It also affirmed Trump’s vision for America as free of the hidebound restrictions imposed by unaccountable, quasi-government departments.

“It’s a small but important step toward fiscal sanity that we all should be able to agree is long overdue,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said before the final vote.

Thune was able to get Trump’s rescissions bill over the finish line even though two senior Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted “no.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/17/trump-wins-again-senate-passes-9bn-in-cuts-to-global-aid-public-broadcasting/

[Wingnut]

On to the House.  Watch them screw it up.