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Republican Senators have the votes to pass a bill that will cut $9 billion in funds already appropriated by Congress. The vote is expected to happen today.
The package, which narrowly passed the House in May, would cull back funding from Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio.
The Republican-controlled Senate faces a major litmus test on whether it is willing to codify cuts to the federal government going forward.
Senate Republicans will tweak President Donald Trump’s $9.4 billion rescission request — the White House’s attempt to give a figleaf of legitimacy to the Department of Government Efficiency’s rampage through the federal government — in order to get key Senate GOP holdouts onboard.
Congress has until the end of the week to send the bill to Trump's desk, but the path forward for the rescissions package remains a bit murky.
Senate GOP leaders are looking to avoid a repeat of the lengthy and sometimes bewildering floor process that led to the passage of the Trump tax bill by locking down key details with holdouts before the chamber moves to a vote-a-rama Wednesday on a bill to claw back funding.