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Posted on 07/15/2025 9:59:56 PM PDT by lightman
There will always be three who give us heartburn. Shockingly, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who has become the new John McCain of the Senate regarding being a thorn in the side, opted not to break ranks on the recissions package, which codifies some $9 billion in cuts. The gutting of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio is included in this package, which barely advanced on a key vote to move the bill forward. Vice President JD Vance had to go up to the hill to break the 50-50 tie. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) voted against advancing the bill (via WaPo):
NOW VOTING: Motion to discharge from Appropriations Committee H.R.4, Rescissions Act of 2025. — Senate Cloakroom (@SenateCloakroom) July 16, 2025
🚨BREAKING NEWS: JD Vance has cast the tie-breaking vote to advance the rescissions package in the Senate!
Republican Senators McConnell, Murkowski, and Collins voted NO.
NPR & PBS are one step closer to being DEFUNDED. pic.twitter.com/hUt91onaf8 — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 16, 2025
Vance coming to CapHill to break 50/50 vote to discharge rescissions bill from cmte. — Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 16, 2025
Vance breaks tie to discharge rescissions bill from cmte and send it to the floor. Senate now voting on actual motion to begin debate on the bill — Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 16, 2025
Senate Republicans are racing to vote this week on whether to claw back $9 billion in foreign aid and funding for public broadcasting ahead of a crucial Friday deadline.
The rescissions bill is a top priority for the Trump administration, which plans to use the same process to seek deeper cuts in the future if it passes. But some Senate Republicans have balked at the cuts, forcing Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) to reverse course on some of them Tuesday in an attempt to secure enough votes to pass the bill.
Senate Republicans said they would remove $400 million in cuts to the HIV/AIDS relief program known as PEPFAR from the $9.4 billion package. Russell Vought, the White House budget director, said Republicans had the votes to pass the bill after lunching Tuesday with Republican senators.
This was another hellacious process because that's how things are done in the Senate:
Team Trump is seeing what they can gain one-by-one.
- Sen. Rounds told reporters he is NOW A YES bc the WH promised to find nearly $10 million for 28 Native American radio stations in 9 states. - Lots of senators to watch: Collins, McCnnll, Sllivan, Yng, Tillis, Risch, Fischer. — Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) July 15, 2025
The rescission amendment process here is KEY.
- GOP Senators have different concerns that don't overlap perfectly here. - But there is a sizable group trying to agree on one amendment to rule them all. - They aren't there yet. — Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) July 15, 2025
There has been vague talk of trying to cut NPR but not PBS.
1. Not sure the votes are there for that (maybe/maybe not) 2. No one has made a clear case to me for how that could be done. The rescission and Congressional funding is for the Corp. for Public Broadcasting. — Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) July 15, 2025
BREAKING - PROTECTED NOW: Multiple sources say funding for Malaria, TB, nutrition and maternal health is being protected from the remaining global health cuts in the rescissions pkg.
I am awaiting more detail.
(Was a separate cut from the PEPFAR pot of money that was restored.) — Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) July 15, 2025
In other words… — Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) July 15, 2025
BREAKING: Senate Republicans, WH are erasing $400 million in proposed global health cuts that was expected to include PEPFAR.
That change is in there key, substitute amendment.
NO change in that to cuts to public broadcasting.
Senators can try to amend that separately. — Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) July 15, 2025
Murkowski is not pleased with the cuts to PBS and NPR and doesn’t want to be a team player in getting the core tenets of the Trump agenda through.
Murkowski on her opposition to rescission package: It you don't like what's going on within NPR and PR, you think that there's too much bias there. We can address that, we can address that...you don't need to gut the entire Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity, the… — Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 16, 2025
Murkowski: "I don't want us to go from one reconciliation bill to a recissions package to another recissions package to a reconciliation package to a continuing resolution ... I don't accept that. I'm going to be voting no" — Burgess Everett (@burgessev) July 16, 2025
UPDATE: Second hurdle cleared, Senate begins debate on the package.
Senate breaks second hurdle to formally begin debate on rescissions bill, 51-50. Vance breaks tie. Collins, Murkowski and McConnell again vote no — Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 16, 2025
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Deja vu all over again.
Winning!
The Three Traitors strike again.
This would not be a problem, if we weren’t frauded out of Senate seats.
Lord, PLEASE, remove these people from office.
Soon!
You can always bet on traitors like Murkowski, Collins & McConnell and Linda Grahamnesty unless he’s looking for a personal payout.
Also wouldn’t be a problem of Trump hadn’t sabotaged the Georgia election, then injected Herschel Walker. Or Mehmet Oz in PA. Or if we had a better candidate than Kari Lake in AZ.
I hardly think we can correctly consider stupid illegitimate nepotist Murkowski, Collins and McConnell Republicans.
Those 2 are true, although Ferterman had a unique Blue Collar appeal in PA.
Worthless RAT filth!
McConnell has forgotten his place. Either that, or he's taking his orders from his Chinese handlers to mess with the Trump agenda in any way possible.
-PJ
Mitch the ChiCom B!tch.
There are more than a few places in Kentucky where he’d better not hazard to venture.
Turtle, alaska lib and maine lib. No surprises at all. I wish we’d just jettison them. Then they could either stop lying and be dems or keep lying and be “independents”.
Actually surprised Grahamnesty wasn’t with them, he is quite often.
>> Murky: “ We can address that, we can address that…”
definitely, and was through defunding
But the bottom line is...Why should I pay for your problem.
Back in the day...many decades ago...my local NPR affiliate played classical music most of the day except for AM drivetime “Morning Edition” and evening drivetime “All Things Considered” [PM me for more about that one!]
Then during the Bush years things began to change and they were broadcasting all the SCOTUS confirmation hearings (especially Robert Bork’s) and soon morphed into 24/7 Libtard news and commentary.
Thats when I stopped listening and supporting.
Native Americans?? We give them millions....year after year...and we get nothing in return.
What was McConnell’s objection? Murkowski and Collins are not a surprise, but McConnell has spent years wrangling close votes. I don’t see a dealbreaker in the bill. Nor do I see a tactical reason, although the occasional need to preserve the right to move to reconsider comes to mind.
If we elect another Republican we won’t have to worry about ‘the three’...
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