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Murkowski said on Wednesday that she still opposes the bill after voting on Tuesday against advancing it forward.
Senate Republicans blasted through Democratic and internal opposition to pass President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar clawback package early Thursday morning.
Trump's $9 billion rescissions package is advancing, despite a trio of Republican defections. It targets foreign aid and public broadcasting funding.
WASHINGTON (TNND) — Friday is the big deadline for Congress to claw back more than $9 billion in already approved federal funds. Early Thursday morning, the Senate approved the bill after an all-night vote-a-rama. But now it heads to the House because of amendments made in the Senate.
After days of debate, parliamentarian maneuvers, and more opportunities than we would frankly like for J.D. Vance to be at least nominally important to the national decision-making process, the United States Senate passed a bill in the early hours of Thursday morning that would defund the Corporation Of Public Broadcasting—the independent agency through which the government funds both PBS and NPR—to the tune of more than a billion dollars.
WASHINGTON (WABI) - Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, spoke on the Senate floor against the ‘Recissions Package’ currently being considered by the Senate. The legislation aims to remove billions in congressionally approved funding. Some of the programs include the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and USAID.