Vice President JD Vance once again cast the tiebreaking vote to advance the bill to codify the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts in the narrowly divided Senate (50-50).
Republicans lost three votes, as they sided with the 45 Democrats and two independents to try to stop the bill from moving on to debate, and potentially, a final vote as early as Wednesday.
Long voting against President Donald Trump’s urgings, Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, joined with Democrats in voting against the Senate taking up the measure.
The rescissions bill, up against the Friday deadline to be signed or lock in former President Joe Biden-era spending levels for public media outlets and foreign aid is now trimmed from $9.4 billion to $9 billion with Senate Republicans moving to keep in $400 million of HIV/AIDS aid.
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