Trump, Senate and Republicans
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Trump, GOP and Senate
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The rescissions bill to claw back funding approved for foreign aid, NPR and PBS is a top Trump priority, but some Senate Republicans have raised concerns about the cuts.
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.
House Republicans face a midnight Friday deadline to pass a Trump-backed bill cutting $9 billion from public broadcasting and foreign aid programs.
Doctors, hospitals and insurers have been among the most powerful lobbying forces in Washington. But they couldn't convince lawmakers to stave off cuts to Medicaid funding.
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.
Congress had until the end of day on Friday to pass the rescissions request, or the funding would have had to be spent as originally intended.