Trump, Senate and corporation for public broadcasting
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Trump's $9 billion rescissions package is advancing, despite a trio of Republican defections. It targets foreign aid and public broadcasting funding.
Senate GOP appropriators want their leaders to bring a package of fiscal 2026 spending bills to the floor before August recess, Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Thursday.
The Senate burns the midnight oil hoping to pass Trump’s spending agenda, the man accused of fatally stabbing four college students in Idaho appears to have accepted a plea deal, and the city of Los Angeles is again engrossed in a legal battle over immigration.
House conservatives are drawing battle lines in the burgeoning showdown over President Donald Trump's spending cuts request.
The Senate narrowly approved a White House request to claw back $9 billion from the federal budget. The final vote on Thursday morning was 51-48. Sens. Susan Collins, R.-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R.-Alaska,