The Dux had a cause of gain. The American Senate adopted Thursday, under the leadership of the White House and the Dux of Elon Musk, a text that would allow the Trump administration not to spend about $ 9 billion in public funds, mainly aimed at international aid.
Despite a republican majority of 53 seats of 100, the vote was acquired only 51 votes and 48 against.
Republican senators Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) voted against, while their Kentucky counterpart, Mitch McConnell, who had opposed the day before Wednesday’s project, voted in his favor.
The vote was blocked in 50-50 on Wednesday, during the preliminary examination of the amendments, and it was the vice president JD Vance who had the last word, as the Constitution wants to advance the text until Thursday morning.
Humanitarian aid of the saber budget
This text refers to almost $ 8 billion that were destined to the USAID development aid agency, the rest must be dedicated mainly to public media NPR and PBS.
The Pepfar World Pepfar program to combat AIDS, created under George W. Bush, was initially concerned about these cuts, with $ 400 million canceled, but moderate senators have obtained this part of the text already adopted in the House of Representatives.
Therefore, the lower room will have to vote again, before the deadline on Friday night, to approve the modified version of the text it had adopted in June.
The head of the Republican majority in the Senate, John Thune, put the impact of these cuts while greeting a necessary first step.
“We are talking about 1/10 of 1% of all federal expenses here,” he told the press.
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham told AFP that the bill was consistent with Donald Trump’s promises to reduce expenses.
“I have always been a great defender of help programs abroad … I am a type of hawk (interventionist), but foreign aid is necessary. The ‘soft power’ is necessary,” he said.
The democratic field is blocking
On the other side of the hemicycle, the Democrats come together to oppose the project.
At the time of adoption of the initial text in the House of Representatives, the Republican President had welcomed $ 9 billion “for a foreign aid made by waste.”
He had also attacked the NPR radio and the PBS television channel, “highly partial” against Republicans according to him. The two public media is likely to lose $ 1.1 billion for them.
The US Constitution establishes that Congress only has the power to allocate federal public funds. The vote of this text is the first in which the Republicans presented as a potential series of legislative packages that encode the discounts of the expenses identified by Doge and requested by the White House, while these funds had already been previously approved by Congress.
Source: BFM TV
