The House of Representatives has approved a White House request to claw back two years of previously approved funding for public media.
The rescissions package now moves on to the Senate.
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The fate of President Trump's massive tax and spending bill remains uncertain,
but it has cleared a key hurdle.
The yeas are 51, the nays are 49, the motion is agreed to.
After hours of delay, the Senate voted late last night to open debate on the measure.
North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis and Kentucky's Rand Paul were the only Republicans to vote against advancing it,
joining a united Democratic front opposed to the bill.
Democrats seeking to delay action on the measure, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
If Senate Republicans won't tell the American people what's in this bill...
then Democrats are going to force this chamber to read it from start to finish.
I object.
It's been about nine hours since the reading of the 940-page bill began.
Once it's been read in its entirety, senators will begin up to 20 hours of debate.
As the Israeli military presses on with its offensive in Gaza,
it has also faced violence from Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.