WASHINGTON - The House voted 214-212, largely along party lines, to cut federal funding for public media and foreign aid, a move intended to enshrine the first major cuts proposed by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.

The House voted on Thursday to claw back $9.4 billion that lawmakers had already approved for foreign aid and public broadcasting, as Republicans banded together to codify spending cuts put forward by...

The first rescissions package includes $8.3 billion in cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and a $1.1 billion claw back in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcastin...