In a serious win for President Donald Trump, the Republican-led Home narrowly handed a White Home request to claw again $9 billion from the federal funds, together with funding for international help and public broadcasting.
The ultimate vote was 216-213.
Trump requested the cuts, which embody vital reductions to the Company for Public Broadcasting and the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID), formalizing a number of the cuts made by Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity by putting $9.4 billion from the beforehand authorized federal funds.
Two Republicans within the Home voted in opposition to the measure: Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mike Turner of Ohio.
The measure now heads to Trump’s desk for signature.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson celebrated the passage of the $9 billion rescissions package deal and mentioned there could be extra rescissions payments coming.
“This is not the tip, it is the start,” he mentioned.
Home passage got here a day after the Senate narrowly authorized the measure.
The vote within the Senate was 51-48 with Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voting with Democrats in opposition to the rescissions invoice.
Quite a lot of Republicans that symbolize states with rural communities — comparable to Murkowski of Alaska and Mike Rounds of South Dakota — have expressed issues about cuts to public broadcasting that might have an effect on the flexibility of sure communities to entry emergency alerts.
Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson speaks to media on the Capitol, in Washington, July 3, 2025.
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The ultimate vote in Senate occurred after an hourslong and slow-moving vote-a-rama — or marathon voting session — throughout which Democrats provided quite a few amendments to the invoice. The majority of Democratic amendments targeted on attempting to combat again in opposition to cuts to each public broadcast and international well being which might be within the invoice.
The Senate’s course of to advance the package deal started on Tuesday evening when Republicans narrowly superior the rescissions package deal with the help of the tie-breaking vote of Vice President J.D. Vance.
Three Republicans crossed the aisle on Tuesday evening to forged votes in opposition to the invoice after elevating issues concerning the lack of element within the White Home’s rescission plan: Sens. Collins, Murkowski and Mitch McConnell.
