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News-Medical.Net on MSNKFF Health News' 'What the Health?': The Senate saves PEPFAR funding — for nowThe Senate has passed — and sent back to the House — a bill that would allow the Trump administration to claw back some $9 billion in previously approved funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting.
The Senate passed a bill that would cut $9 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting, foreign aid and more. See how Illinois' senators voted.
The spending cuts package, requested by the White House, heads back to the House ahead of a Friday deadline for Trump to sign it into law.
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The measure returns about $8 billion earmarked for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and upwards of $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds PBS
President Donald Trump is one step closer to having Congress officially sign off on a slice of his Department of Government Efficiency’s spending cuts after Senate Republicans agreed TK DATE to cancel $9 billion in funding to foreign aid and public broadcasting.
Republicans in the House and Senate have until Friday to pass the recissions measure that targets foreign assistance and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The rescissions bill to claw back funding approved for foreign aid, NPR and PBS is a top Trump priority, but some Senate Republicans have raised concerns about the cuts.
The Republican tax bill included $150 billion for defense, but the Pentagon has asked Congress for $1 trillion. The NDAA will likely dredge up new policy fights, from anti-drone systems to making it harder for the U.S. to withdraw troops from Europe.