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The Senate overnight approved a Trump administration request to cut $9 billion in foreign aid and funding for NPR,
PBS and their member stations.
NPR's Scott Newman has more.
Senators held a rapid-fire run-through of amendments to the package of cuts,
known as rescission, that the White House sent to Congress last month.
The changes proposed by Democrats, including several aimed at saving public broadcasting funds,
failed on largely party-line votes.
Senators stripped out cuts to PEPFAR, the George W. Bush-era U.S. AIDS relief program.
That change means the bill goes back to the House for a final vote before a Friday deadline.
Scott Newman, NPR News, Washington.
The Trump administration says a popular grant program that helps fight fentanyl overdose deaths will be fully funded,