Republicans win narrow victory with $9 billion spending to undue plans

What can you get for $9.4 billion?

3G Capital recently bought footwear giant Skechers for $9.4 billion.

$9.4 billion can cover your rent New York City More than 40,000 years.

Yes, then it will be you and the cockroaches.

Or you can pay for every major disaster over the past forty years – from Chernobyl to Fukushima Hurricane Sandy.

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But when the federal government spends nearly $7 trillion annually, $9.4 billion is not much.

It really doesn’t have much money when you consider that the United States is going to fall into a $37 trillion tune.

This puts us in Congress plans to cancel spending. That is, the Republican and the Trump administration have revoked spending lawmakers that had already allocated funds in March. House and Senate are now withdrawing Treasury members, overturning the company’s doors Public Broadcast and the foreign aid program under the United States Agency for International Development. The original proposal cut $9.4 billion. But that number has dropped to $9 billion – the Senate has restored “pepfar” funding for presidents in the era of George W. Bush to combat AIDS worldwide.

In other words, you may have been apart from rent-controlled apartments in New York City for thousands of years. Of course, if he wins the election this fall, it depends on what Democratic mayor nominee Zorhan Mamdani decides to do.

Anyway, back to Congress spending. or “expend.”

The House passed the original version of the bill from June 216 to 214. One vote, the bill will fail in the 215-215 draw. Then there is the Senate. Republicans had to call Vice President Vance to Capitol Hill to break the logjam with two procedural votes to send the cancellation bill to the floor and actually initiate the debate. Republicans have a 53-47 advantage in the Senate. But former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-ky. , and the Sens of R-Alaska R-Alaska and R-Maine. Lisa Murkowski, voted for Nay, voted 50-50.

Fox was told that some Senate Republicans were tired of McConnell’s opposition to Republicans and President Trump on various issues. These include not voting, beginning a debate on the cancellation of the spending bill, and his confirmation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

“He used to be the leader. He kept telling us we need to be together,” said a Republican senator who asked to be anonymous. “Now he wants to vote?

Note that McConnell led Senate Republicans in early January.

But when the Senate approved the legislation at 51-48 on Thursday at 2:28 a.m., McConnell finally voted to enact the law.

Merkowski and Collins are the only North. Vice President Vance’s service is not required due to McConnell’s vote and D-Minn Senator Tina Smith. She was sick and was taken to George Washington Hospital to get tired.

As for the senior senator in Alaska, a Republican senator described it as “Mukowski’s fatigue.”

“She always asks. She always wants more,” a Republican complained.

Murkowski won a deal on rural hospitals in exchange for her vote in support of the big, beautiful bill earlier this month. But Merkowski did not ensure a more specificity in layoffs, nor did he help rural public radio stations in Alaska develop spending cuts.

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“My vote is a must-guidance by people from Alaskas. I have a free vote, with or without the president’s support. My obligation is to my voters and the constitution,” said Merkowski. “For years, I disagree that NPR has tilted more parties. This can be resolved. However, you don’t need to put the entire company’s efforts on the public broadcast.”

In a statement, Collins blows up Trump administration Because of the lack of specificity for the accuracy of withdrawal requests. Collins, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, heads the federal wallet, also criticized the administration several months ago because of few details on the president’s budget.

“There is a big problem with canceling the package – no one really knows Reduce the program In it. It’s not because we don’t have time to review the bill,” Collins said in a statement. “Instead, the problem is that the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) never provides details that are usually part of this process. ”

Collins isn’t the only Republican senator who is worried about how the administration will submit a spending cut to Congress. Roger Wick, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. But unlike Collins, Wicker supports the parcel.

Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russell (Russ) Vourch spoke on July 17, 2025 to reporters outside the West Wing of Washington, DC. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)

“If we do this again, give us specific information on where the cuts will arrive. Let’s not get used to this,” Wick said. “If you’re back to us from the administration again, give us a specific amount in a specific plan.”

Doge recommends cutting. In fact, the reduction in spending on most custodial targets will not take effect unless Congress takes action. But even the $9.4 billion cut challenge.

“We should be able to do this in our sleep. But there seems to be enough objection,” R-Ky. Senator Rand Paul said on Fox Business.

So, in court, Republican leaders robbed Pepfar $400 million.

“There is a lot of interest among our members on doing things,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune. “You are still talking about a $9 billion evacuation plan, even with such a small modification.”

The purpose of silence of public broadcasts inspired some Republicans.

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“North Dakota’s public radio stations – about 26% of the budget is federal funding. For me, that’s more about prosecution than what is needed.”

But back to $9 billion. This is a small percentage of all federal funds. Doge recommends cutting more than a trillion dollars.

“What does that mean to the party if the party can’t even pass this bill, is it paying a lot of money?” You did ask Senator John Kennedy (R-La).

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, spoke with media members at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Thursday, July 17, 2025. With $9 billion in the Senate cuts, Republicans will cancel federal funds over decades to end federal funds, thus receiving $9 billion in cuts, resulting in additional Elon Musk Musk Musk efficiency. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Kennedy replied: “I think we are going to lose a lot of credibility.”

but The house needs Since the Senate changed the bill, it has to be synchronized with the Senate – deprived of AIDS funding cuts. House conservatives are not satisfied with the Senate once again stuck them – just two weeks after a major renovation to the big and beautiful Bill’s version of the house. But they accepted their fate.

“It’s disappointing that we have $37 trillion in debt. It’s a low-key fruit for me,” said Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo. “At the end of the day, I’ll take a basic blow, right? It’s better than nothing.”

White House budget director Russ Vought is expected to send other spending cancellation requests to Congress in the coming months. The goal is to reduce deeper spending recommended by Doge.

But if this is a $9 trillion battle, future retirement bills aren’t going to be great.

What can you get with so much money? For Republicans, that’s not much.

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Republicans swing for the fence by cutting spending.

But in the score of the Political Box, this was recorded as a basic blow.