Senate Republicans vote to take back funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting.
It's a small but important step toward fiscal sanity that we all should be able to agree is long overdue.
What will be the impact where you live?
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The Senate approved legislation early this morning that will claw back $9 billion in federal funding for NPR and PBS,
their member stations and foreign aid programs.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Republican of South Dakota,
argued that voters elected Republicans to rein in federal spending.
It's a small but important step toward fiscal sanity that we all should be able to agree is long overdue.
Days earlier,
Republicans approved a tax and spending bill that drastically increases federal borrowing,
according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The rescission makes little difference in that overall picture,