Trump, Senate and DOGE-inspired
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President Donald Trump’s $9 billion rescissions package is back in the House after being passed in the Senate. But while Congress is on track to give the president his first DOGE cuts, it’s hardly a great victory.
The Senate voted to advance a rescissions package despite the reservations of centrists over the Department of Government Efficiency-inspired cuts.
Republican Senators have the votes to pass a bill that will cut $9 billion in funds already appropriated by Congress. The vote is expected to happen today.
The House passed the DOGE spending cuts package, which now heads to Trump’s desk. Meanwhile, Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the release of grand jury testimony surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Congress has until the end of the week to send the bill to Trump's desk, but the path forward for the rescissions package remains a bit murky.
Senate Republicans are putting the popularity of Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts to the test this week.
The House is looking at President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency’s spending cuts after Senate Republicans agreed to cancel $9 billion in funding to foreign aid and public broadcasting.
House Republican leaders are holding a press briefing Tuesday morning as their Senate counterparts debate a rescissions bill the lower chamber passed in June that could make some Department of Government Efficiency funding cuts permanent.