Senate GOP approves the draft law on SLASH foreigners and public broadcasting funds

The Republicans of the Senate had democratic and internal opposition early Thursday morning to say goodbye to President Donald Trump's multibillion dollar clawback package.

The final vote was 51-48, with the Republican Sensan Susan Collins from Maine and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska voice with every democrat to vote against it. The package is now sent to the house, which has time until Friday to pass it.

The invoice regulations of 9 billion US dollars have “woken up” the expenditure for foreign aid programs and NPR and PBS, which the congress previously approved. The Republicans have drawn up the draft law as a structure of their search for waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.

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The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., said that it was a mission that GOP and Trump shared, whose Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) identified many of the abbreviations contained in the package.

“I appreciate all the work that the administration has done in the identification of wasteful expenses,” said Thune. “And now it is time for the Senate to get part of these waste from the budget. It is a small but important step towards fiscal reason, from which we should all agree to be long overdue.”

The president's entity package suggested that only a framework of $ 8 billion from the US Agency for International Development (USA) and over $ 1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the government-supported financing low for NPR and PBS.

Trump's 9 -billion dollar -Clawback pass the first senate test while more hurdles are waiting

Senator John Thune, Rs.d., Zu Sen. Tim Scott, Rs.c. (L) and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, on September 29, 2021 in Washington in Capitol. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

It is probably the first of many who come from the White House.

In contrast to the previous process votes, Vice President JD Vance did not have to be necessary to break a tie. Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

It now goes into the house where the Republicans warned the Senate not to make changes to the package. But just like during the budget reconciliation process at the beginning of this month, the warnings from House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., And Fiscal Hawks in the deaf ears in the upper chamber.

The version of the Senate GOP's draft law is indeed around $ 400 million smaller after the Senate leader agreed to make an envelope that spared the HIV and AIDS prevention financing of the international Bush era.

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Senator Eric Schmitt speaks on the second day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 16, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)

Other attempts were made during a marathon voting A-Rama process to make changes to the legislative template, but none could overcome the 60-vote threshold in the upper chamber.

The Democrats of the Senate tried to kneel the legislation with changes that were characterized against the cuts that reduce the notal arms for extreme weather and disasters, would erode and isolate rural Americans by creating news deserts with cuts in public broadcasting.

“Why do we talk about cutting notals,” said Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. “These are 1,000 times the fact that these stations have been warned to tell people that their lives are in danger.”

Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., The Supreme Democrat on the Senate Committee, claimed that much more was at stake than the spending cuts.

The Democrat in Washington accused the fact that the legislator also “agreed how the Senate will spend the rest of this year, we will only withdraw after resignation because we know that Russia only itches to send us more.”

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., Published the Democrats' claims against the draft law and set the legislation as a way for the legislature to “correct” lavish expenses that should never have been.

He said Fox News Digital that the Democrats “want to keep as much money for their Woke Pet Project as possible”.

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“You could do that for four years,” he said. “So they called themselves in Haiti in Burma and Guatemala changes and voters -id, which is ironic because the Democrats do not support the voters -id here, but they are willing to pay for it in another country.”

Bradford Betz from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.