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Posted on 07/17/2025 2:36:38 AM PDT by Libloather
Senate Republicans blasted through Democratic and internal opposition to pass President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar clawback package early Thursday morning.
The final vote tally was 51-48, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joining every Democrat in voting against it. The package will now be sent to the House, which has until Friday to pass it.
The $9 billion rescissions bill tees up cuts to "woke" spending on foreign aid programs and NPR and PBS that Congress previously approved. Republicans have pitched the bill as building on their quest to root out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said that it was a mission shared by the GOP and Trump, whose Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified many of the cuts included in the package.
"I appreciate all the work the administration has done in identifying wasteful spending," Thune said. "And now it’s time for the Senate to do its part to cut some of that waste out of the budget. It’s a small but important step toward fiscal sanity that we all should be able to agree is long overdue."
The president’s rescissions package proposed cutting just shy of $8 billion from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the government-backed funding arm for NPR and PBS.
It’s likely the first of many to come from the White House.
Unlike the previous procedural votes, Vice President JD Vance was not needed to break a tie. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., voted against the preceding procedural votes to advance the package on Tuesday night, but ultimately backed the bill.
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DOGE scrutiny will continue...and we’ll find more waste as we go along. Looking forward to the next rescission package.
Don’t worry...NPR and PBS is alive and well...and will continue to be funded “privately”. The big boys will just have to revise their “control” list.
Well, YAY!
A symbolic start!
Now, do it again!
I don’t care who funds them, so long as it is domestic donors and my tax dollars stop going to leftist propaganda.
Crank up those pledge drives! Break out the tote bags! Fire up that virtue-signaling! Tell the folks how Big Bird will end dealing crack on Sesame Street with their contributions.
*without* of course
As you likely know, Sesame Street is not produced by PBS - but news reports claim that they are...and they are a multi-billion dollar enterprise...hardly dependent on public funding. And PBS has not had first run of that show for quite a number of years now. Yet, it continues to be falsely reported this way.
One such example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcEZBgOOb4A
And the people in the comments section just lap it up like it is true.
Good news… now when do we Citizens get to “claw back” some of that stolen tax money that was overpaid????
12 years of the Obunghole regime - 2008 to 2016, then again 2020 to 2024 - they stole a lot of money from us to fund their little attempted commie revolution.
National Propaganda Radio has been a tool for the dems for far too long. It always pisses me off knowing my tax dollars help to keep it running.
it’s a drop in the bucket, but it’s a start.
Now let’s see more...much more.
We should be passing rescissions bills every week. Claw back the government one bite at a time.
I wonder what judge the liberals will find to claim that finding NPR and PBS is constitutionally mandatory,
PBS and NPR won't skip a beat.
A lack of sunshine or not being shook enough?
What is wrong with these two, kowski and collins need to go. Mitch is self terminating and still kicks and plays us like we are stupid.
Fox makes it sound like that’s a bad thing.
Their ‘begging for dollars’ shtick is a scam!
Good news. Every little bit helps.
Sis started her graphics career working for Henson Productions. Getting paid through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was a pain in the butt.
It’s time for the damn politicians to hang up their throw money at the freeloaders’ programs. American taxpayers are tired of it. It’s time for American “leaders” to do what they did to NATO. Make all the other countries start picking up the tab. America has done it long enough and has wasted a lot of taxpayer money on the freeloaders of the world. STOP FEEDING THE DAMN BEARS! They’ll never learn how to provide for themselves.
“Unlike the previous procedural votes, Vice President JD Vance was not needed to break a tie. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., voted against the preceding procedural votes to advance the package on Tuesday night, but ultimately backed the bill.”
Now, go take a nap, Mitch.
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