The Republican-led House Appropriations Committee put forth legislation that would slash the foreign aid and State Department budget but salvage some programs that the president wants to defund.
The legislation advanced by the committee on Wednesday would double President Trump’s request for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR.
It’s the third time this year that investigators from the Government Accountability Office have determined the administration defied Congress on spending.
Republicans are seeking to undermine the Government Accountability Office as it investigates, and considers suing, over the Trump administration’s withholding federal funds.
White House officials including Russell T. Vought, its budget director, are targeting the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan agency that helps Congress parcel out money more effectively.
In voting for President Trump’s cancellation of $9 billion in spending they had already approved, Republicans in Congress showed they were willing to cede their power of the purse.
President Trump’s request to claw back $9 billion in congressionally approved spending passed despite objections from Republicans who said it abdicated the legislative branch’s power of the purse.
In a letter to Senator Mike Rounds, Republican of South Dakota, the head of a network of Native radio and television stations said a deal to ostensibly protect tribal stations was unworkable.
Senator Mike Rounds, Republican of South Dakota, at center, had signaled his support for President Trump’s request to rescind money from public broadcasting was in doubt, only to reverse his position on Tuesday, sparking criticism from Native Public Media.
The vote to take up legislation to rescind $9 billion in congressionally approved funds suggested that Republicans would bow to the president’s wishes in the simmering fight over spending powers.
Many Republicans initially balked at slashing $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds more than 1,500 public television and radio stations across the country, including NPR and PBS stations.
After the passage of President Trump’s domestic policy law, the Department of Homeland Security is poised to hire thousands of new immigration agents and double detention space.
The site of a nitrogen leak in Georgia that killed six workers in 2021. The federal investigative team that determined the cause could face Trump administration cuts.
The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by other world powers may alter the environment.
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