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If the rescission bill passes, $1.1 billion of funding will be cut from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, limiting public radio's ability to license music.
The Republican-controlled Senate faces a major litmus test on whether it is willing to codify cuts to the federal government going forward.
Senate Republicans are preparing to advance Trump's multibillion-dollar clawback package, though internal dissent threatens to stall the effort.
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.
House Republicans are urging their Senate GOP colleagues not to make any changes to the bill to claw back billions of dollars in federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, as the
House conservatives are drawing battle lines in the burgeoning showdown over President Donald Trump's spending cuts request.