Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., a leader in the US minority, will hold Elmo toys, and the Chamber of Commerce discusses bills that will eliminate funds for public broadcasting services or public broadcasting stations that provide grants to public broadcasting services or public broadcasting stations that provide grants to PBS. (Screenshots taken from the House Clerk’s website Livestream.)

WASHINGTON – The US home narrowly passed a law Thursday revoking the previously approved $9.4 billion funding for public media, including national public radio, public broadcasting services and foreign aid, but the future of the Senate bill is uncertain amid strict timelines.

214-212 Mainly Party – Voting for the row For the third time in decades, Mark has approved a bill that would curb funding lawmakers had previously agreed to spend. President Donald Trump sent a rescue request that led to a House bill to a Republican-controlled Congress earlier this month.

Mark Amodai of Nevada, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Nicole Mariotakis of New York and Mike Turner of Ohio, along with Democrats in every room, opposed the legislation’s approval.

Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon and New York Rep. Nick Larota, both Republicans, switched from opposition to support the bill after Mike Johnson spoke on the floor when the vote was held.

R-La. House majority leader Steve Scalise in his floor debate claimed that pulling back funds was a good place to start, but said GOP was trying to do more in a few months and years.

Scalise said PBS and NPR must compete with other media organizations without federal grants.

“The American people still have a lot of options,” Scullyse said. “But if they pay hard-earned dollars to get content, why should your taxes go to just one thing the other side wants to promote?

Rep. Cherry Pinley, a Democrat in Maine, said all states in the country will feel the impact of eliminating company funds for public broadcasting.

“I stand today against this retirement bill and the reckless attacks on public media, including the millions of Americans who rely on and value local public television and radio stations,” Pinley said.

She said her efforts to give back the CPB were the result of Trump’s “an agenda for the free press and his authoritarian desire to control the media.”

Public media loses $1.1 billion

7 pages of invoice It totalled $1.1 billion, withdrew all funds that Congress approved to the company for public broadcasting in fiscal 2026 and 2027.

CPB is one of the few programs that grant grants to public radio and television stations across the country and receive sophisticated budgets. Therefore, the funding removal as envisaged in the House bill will begin on October 1st.

The law revokes more than $8 billion from several foreign aid programs run by the US Department of State or the US Agency for International Development.

Florida Republican Rep. Mario Diaz Barato, chair of the state foreign operations and budget subcommittee, said in an interview Wednesday that extensive talks were held between GOP lawmakers and the Office of Management and Budget before the Trump administration officially submitted the rescue request.

However, Díaz-Balart warned that there is a need for considerable negative advance negotiations ahead of future rescue requests for the Annual Funding Act Instruction Program.

“This withdrawal package – I was communicating with OMB – if this passes, we can move forward,” he said. “If you’re talking about the possibility of additional rescues in the future, it could potentially cause problems and bring together the president’s hands when it comes to dealing with the enemy or helping allies.”

Díaz-Balart said OMB officials would like to see additional rescue requests for foreign aid.

Florida Democrat Rep. Lois Frankel, a ranking member of the state-run Operations Expenditure Panel, said in a floor debate on Thursday that the bill was an attack on American values ​​and poses a threat to national security.

“It’s not charity, it’s strategy,” Frankel said of foreign aid. “Don’t take my words. Military leaders on both parties have been warning us for years. If we can’t lead with soft power, we’ll end up paying with blood, bombs and more boots on the ground.”

“Reducing foreign aid will deepen despair, deepen fuel extremism, push fragile societies towards collapse, and when that happens, we all pay the price,” she added. “The refugee crisis will skyrocket, diseases will spread, trade routes will be shut down, military and diplomats will face greater dangers, and homeland security will weaken.”

The first of many requests

The House vote took place just a week after the Trump administration Send a request for rescue to lawmakersthe first of many proposals that the White House Budget Office will submit.

The $9.4 billion cancellation proposal is Approximately $6.8 trillion The federal government spends every year.

The recommendation said some foreign aid should be cancelled because it supported “programs that are opposed to American interests and that would worsen the lives of women and children, such as “family planning,” “reproductive health,” LGBTQI+ activities and “equity” programs.”

The resignation request allows the office to legally freeze management and budget funds on a program listed for 45 days, but lawmakers decide whether to approve, amend or ignore the recommendations.

The House and Senate must agree to approve the same retirement bill by mid-July for the changes to take effect. If the two-house agreement is not reached prior to that, the Trump administration will need to spend the money and prevent the president from requesting the same cancellation for the remainder of his term.

Resignation requests are rare as Congress usually negotiates spending levels for thousands of federal programs in decades-old annual spending bills signed by the president.

The first Trump administration proposed rescue in 2018, but the bill did not accomplish it through the Senate.

The actual approval of Congress was when the funds were withdrawn in 1992 during the George HW Bush administration. Report From the Non-Participation Congress Research Service.

More actions in the Senate

The Senate will need to take up the bill by mid-July if they want to approve any of the spending cuts, but a few GOP senators will need to return to the state newsroom in a brief interview Wednesday before the house vote and return to the home for final approval before the 45-day clock runs.

The retirement bill gives the chance to vote in the Senate, with llamas giving Republicans and Democrats the opportunity to call for as many amendments as they want to vote on the floor. The GOP has a majority of 53, so it could lead to the removal of more than four Republicans who oppose any element of the bill.

Senate Speaker R-Maine, Speaker Susan Collins, said the resignation bill would be given “cautious consideration.”

In a statement released earlier this month, shortly after the White House sent out a request to lawmakers, Collins wrote that the committee will “review the rescue package carefully, investigate the potential consequences of these boredom, and examine potential consequences for rural communities regarding emergency communications, public radio and television stations.”

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, chair of the International Operating Budget Subcommittee, said he mostly supports the rescue request, but he did not rule out providing amendments to restore full funding for the US President’s emergency plan for AIDS relief, often referred to as Pepfer.

“I think I’m fine with most of it. I’m worried about Pepfer. I have to see it,” Graham said.

West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capit, chairman of the Expense Committee, which oversees the company for public broadcasting, said the bill will be evaluated once it arrives.

“We have everything else I think about. I’m not focusing on that,” Capito said.

Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Markowski, a senior member of the Approximate Budget Committee, said she “will try” to ensure that businesses for public broadcasting maintain their funds.

“I’m a supporter of the company for public broadcasting. It’s a lifeline for many of my small rural community,” Murkowski said.

“When the bill comes from the House, it’s trying to figure out a strategy to address both foreign aid and public broadcasting provisions,” said Sen. Jerry Moran, a Republican Kansas Senator.

“I look at both of them and see what the correct outcome should be.”

“The risk of living in the news desert”

Both PBS and NPR issued a statement after the House vote and pledged to do their best not to undermine the funds.

In a statement, NPR president and CEO Katherine Maher wrote that a company for public broadcasting is essential to the organization.

“Americans who rely on local independent stations serving communities across the United States, especially in rural and underserved areas, will suffer from the imminent consequences of this vote,” writes Maher. “When the withdrawal passes and local stations get dark, millions of Americans lose access to locally owned, independent, nonprofit media, live in the news desert, miss emergency alerts, and risk hearing the silence that classical, jazz and local artists are currently playing.”

“The fight to protect public media will not end with this vote, so we will continue to insist on important services in the coming days and weeks,” PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger said in another statement.

“If these cuts are finalized by the Senate, they will have a devastating impact on PBS and local member stations, especially small and rural stations, which provide federal funding for a large portion of the budget.