The Senate passed the $9 billion rescissions bill, which scales back foreign aid and NPR funding.
That’s not enough. Slash MORE.
The bill heads back to the House, which has to pass it by Friday.
Republican Sens. Susan Collins (ME) and Lisa Murkowski (AK) voted against it, but Mitch McConnell (KY) voted for it, making the result 51-48.
From Fox News:
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.
Murkowski whined that the Senate should be legislating:
Before the vote, the Alaskan Senator added: “I haven’t been given the comfort, if you will, that we’re not impacting maternal and child health. That we’re not impacting HIV/AIDS, we’re not impacting nutrition programs and programs related to tuberculosis, malaria, polio, neglected tropic disease, pandemic prevention and family planning. I think we are entitled to have that level of detail when these funds that we have authorized, that we have appropriated to, are now being clawed back. I don’t think that’s too much to ask.”The Senator concluded her pre-vote 5-minutes on the floor with a warning: “We’re lawmakers, we should be legislating. What we’re getting now is a direction from the White House and being told ‘this is the priority, we want you to execute on it, we’ll be back with you on another round.’ I don’t accept that.”
Guess what, lady. Those who voted for President Donald Trump voted to cut government spending.
Congress appropriates the spending. Lawmaking isn’t your only job. Cut the spending.
*I* don’t accept you guys spending my money the way you do.
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