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President Donald Trump’s $9.4 billion spending cuts package survived a key hurdle on Wednesday afternoon, setting the measure up for a final House-wide vote later this week.
Trump’s proposal, which was introduced as legislation by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., would cut $8.3 billion from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and just over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes federal funding to NPR and PBS.
The House of Representatives made a procedural motion known as a “rule vote,” which passed mostly along party lines.
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House Republicans inched closer to a chamber-wide vote on $9.4 billion in spending cuts. (Fox News Digital)
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,