The Republicans of the Senate narrowly advance

Washington – The Senate Republicans voted Tuesday evening to move forward Set of expenses Proposed by President Donald Trump as they run to pass the measure with a deadline on Friday.

Procedural vote on $ 9.4 billion attractions packageWho seeks to recover the funding previously approved for foreign aid and public broadcasting, succeeded 51-50, the vice-president JD Vance breaking equality.

Three Republicans – Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, all members of the credit committee – joined each Democrat to vote against her. The Senate will organize a final vote on the proposal later this week.

Earlier Tuesday, the Senate Republicans and the White House agreed to modify the measure significant when they sought to guarantee the simple majority necessary to pass the package of resilions in the room. They planned to remove around $ 400 million in Pepfar cuts, the Bush era foreign aid program to fight HIV / AIDS, which was credited with saving millions of lives.

“There is a substitute amendment which, I think, has a good chance of passing,” the journalists the director of the White House budget, Russell Vought, told journalists after meeting the Republicans of the Senate. “Pepfar will not be affected by cancellations.”

The Republicans plan to transmit it on party lines through a process resistant to the rarely used obstruction which gives the Congress 45 days from the request of the White House to return it to the office of the President. This deadline is Friday.

The Senate’s plan to modify the bill means that it will have to adopt the home controlled by the GOP again before Trump can sign it. The house barely passing The package of cancellations 214-212 last month, with four Republicans voting against him,

“There was a lot of interest among our members to do something about the Pepfar issue, and this is therefore reflected in the replacement,” the head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d. told journalists. “And we hope that if we can pass this through the finish line to the Senate, the room would accept this small modification which ends up making the package at around $ 9 billion.

Most of the cuts are foreign help. The package also reduces $ 1.1 billion from the public broadcasting company, which finances PBS and NPR. This has triggered objections of certain Republicans, who say that voters in rural areas count on these stations for essential questions such as emergency alerts.

Thune said that Senator Mike Rounds, RS.D., who had concerns about rural broadcasting, has concluded an agreement with the White House which “allows them to reprogram funding which would address the 28 stations in the country which receive funding via CPB which appear on our Amerindian reserves”.

Rounds said he would support legislation accordingly.

“This is a direct agreement with OMB that they transfer the funds to the Ministry of the Interior. The Ministry of the Interior has agreed to accept it and issue subsidies,” he said. “We told them very clearly that what we wanted is that these resources were made available to these Native American radio stations.”

The White House said it would resume the funds if the Senate does not send the package to Trump by the deadline for 45 days.

“We have to withdraw our grip on money,” said Vought. “We will therefore not implement the cuts if this vote does not take place in our direction.”

The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., criticized the proposed cuts and warned that if the Republicans cancel the expenses approved in the bipartite agreements, it would be more difficult to carry out the 60 votes necessary to conclude a financing agreement this fall.

He said on Tuesday that Democrats were still hoping to continue to make bipartite decisions.

“We do everything we can – everything we can to maintain the process of bipartite credits in the future,” said Schumer.