Republicans in
Congress are set for another internal skirmish, this time over how much money to cut from a slew of programs
Donald Trump wants gutted.
The
Senate will consider a package this week that was sent over from the
White House and passed by the
House of Representatives last month.
It is the first of what
GOP leaders expect to be many so-called 'rescission' packages where the White House asks lawmakers to rethink their approval of certain programs.
The bill specifically contains 21 budget rescissions, many identified by DOGE.
The $9.4 billion in funds that Trump wants Congress to reclaim includes about
$1.1 Billion in financing for public broadcasters, like PBS and NPR.
It also contains roughly $8.3 Billion in USAID funding for social
foreign aid programs abroad, like operas for
transgender people and pro-LGBT groups throughout the world, is on the chopping block.
The bill is widely supported by conservative members of Congress, though some more moderate GOP lawmakers are nervous about the legislation's deep cuts to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and impacts on public broadcasters. These are warning signs a new GOP civil war is brewing.
And making matters even more complicated is a tenuous deadline for the rescission package - if it is not passed before this Friday, July 18, the package will dissolve - and the measure to strike the spending will be moot.
Republicans in Congress are set for another internal skirmish, this time over how much money to cut from a slew of programs Donald Trump wants gutted.
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