The spending cuts package, requested by the White House, heads back to the House ahead of a Friday deadline for Trump to sign it into law.

The measure returns about $8 billion earmarked for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and upwards of $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds PBS and NPR — spending conservatives have long sought to slash.

Sen. Thom Tillis stood on the Senate floor and warned White House aides to tread carefully as they cut foreign aid and to remember the promises they made to get a rescission bill approved by senators.

President Donald Trump continued to face backlash from his MAGA supporters over his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi "to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval" related to the case.

OMB chief Russell Vought expressed excitement that Congress appeared to be on the verge of codifying into law roughly $9 billion in cuts.

White House budget chief Russell Vought said Thursday that the administration is likely to send another rescissions package to Congress to claw back previously approved spending. Vought’s comments

"Though the House and Senate have much still to debate on full-year appropriations, this much is clear: Congress is rejecting the full extent of the unprecedented, unstrategic, and wasteful cuts to NASA and NASA science proposed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget," the Planetary Society said in a statement.

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is asking Senate Republicans whether they are “serious” about fiscal responsibility before the chamber votes next week on legislation that would claw back spending Congress has already approved.

The Senate cleared two procedural hurdles Tuesday/TK day to move closer to a final vote on the GOP effort to codify Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts as a deadline to act on the White House priority looms.