The House of Representatives has advanced a $9.4 billion spending cut package, proposed by President Trump, to be voted on later this week on the House floor.
This includes cuts to National Public Radio (NPR), Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). $8.3 billion is set to be cut from the USAID, the far left agency that the Trump Administration has accused of funding foreign programs that do little to advance American interests.
The President ordered NPR and PBS to be defunded last month. The recissions package cuts over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump signed the “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media” executive order, which directs the CPB Board of Directors to “cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS.”
Per Fox:
The rule passing now allows for debate on the $9.4 billion spending cut measure, followed by a final House-wide vote.
But it’s not atypical for House leaders to include unrelated measures in rule votes, as is the case with the spending cuts package – House GOP leaders included a provision with minor changes to Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” to account for the Senate needing to amend the bill.
That latter piece of legislation, a vast tax and immigration bill, is moving through the budget reconciliation process.
By dropping the Senate’s threshold for advancement from 60 votes to 51, it allows the party in power to skirt the minority – in this case, Democrats – on vast pieces of legislation, provided they adhere to a specific set of budgetary rules.
This is a developing story.
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