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White House Poised to Claw Back $9B in Foreign Aid, Public Media Funding After House Vote

HeadlineJul 18, 2025

The House of Representatives voted 216 to 213 early this morning in favor of President Trump’s rescissions package clawing back $9 billion in already-approved funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting. Only two Republicans opposed the measure, which now heads to Trump’s desk for his signature. The legislation codifies Trump’s cuts to foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development, which the British medical journal The Lancet reports could result in 14 million additional deaths globally by 2030. Katherine Maher, head of NPR, blasted the “unwarranted dismantling of beloved local civic institutions, [by] an act of Congress that disregards the public will.” We’ll have more on this later in the broadcast with Loris Taylor, president of Native Public Media, and Congressmember Ro Khanna.

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