Senate, Trump and DOGE cuts
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Mike Waltz, Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Signal
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Republicans in the House and Senate have until Friday to pass the recissions measure that targets foreign assistance and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Senators began voting Wednesday on amendments to a large foreign aid and public broadcasting rescissions package.
Sen. Thom Tillis stood on the Senate floor and warned White House aides to tread carefully as they cut foreign aid and to remember the promises they made to get a rescission bill approved by senators.
Murkowski said on Wednesday that she still opposes the bill after voting on Tuesday against advancing it forward.
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The Senate cleared two procedural hurdles Tuesday/TK day to move closer to a final vote on the GOP effort to codify Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts as a deadline to act on the White House priority looms.
A bill to cancel about $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting spending is nearing passage in the Senate.
The lawyers wrote that Emil Bove III, the face of some controversial moves by President Trump’s Justice Department, had disgraced the department.
Senate Republicans narrowly advance Trump's funding cuts targeting $8.3 billion from USAID and $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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