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Vice President JD Vance cast two tie-breaking votes in the Senate Tuesday to move forward a $9.4B rescissions package — which would rip federal funding from PBS and NPR — in the upper chamber.
President Donald Trump wants to claw back $9.4 billion earmarked for foreign aid and funding PBS and NPR. The Senate has a Friday deadline to decide what to do.
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Digital Music News on MSNCongress Quickly Proceeds With Plans to Cut Funding for NPR and PBS — Senate Narrowly Advances BillAhead of a July 18th deadline, the Senate is preparing to vote on a rescissions package that would claw back $535 million in annual public broadcasting funding. Update (7/15): After this piece was published,
A bipartisan bill in Congress would enable President Trump to slap "bone-crushing sanctions" on Russia, says Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.