Senate Republicans Advance Trump’s $9 Billion Clawback Bill Despite Democrat Resistance

Senate Republicans took another big step toward restoring fiscal sanity on Capitol Hill late Monday night, pushing President Donald Trump’s $9 billion spending clawback package through its final procedural hurdle with Vice President JD Vance casting a key tie-breaking vote.

Now, the bill heads into 10 hours of debate, where Senate Democrats are expected to throw everything they have at it, attacking the bill for targeting their sacred cows: foreign aid giveaways, bloated public broadcasting, and liberal spending priorities that have nothing to do with serving the American people.

Let’s be clear on what this bill does:

• Slashes $9 billion in reckless discretionary spending, returning it to taxpayers.

• Targets outdated and abused funding lines, including massive foreign aid packages and subsidies for partisan media under the guise of “public broadcasting.”

• Carves out a White House-supported exemption for $400 million in HIV/AIDS relief under the Bush-era PEPFAR program, after concerns from a handful of moderate Republicans.

While Democrats universally opposed the bill not a single Senate Democrat voted in favor almost the entire Republican caucus backed it. Only Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and Mitch McConnell opposed it, continuing their usual dance with the establishment status quo.

The final test looms with another round of vote-a-rama, where either party can offer unlimited amendments. Democrats will likely attempt to derail the bill with poison-pill proposals, while House Freedom Caucus members and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) are warning the Senate GOP not to water it down.

“Stay the course,” is the message from fiscal conservatives in the House, who want to make sure this package remains a bold statement against runaway spending, foreign dependency, and liberal priorities masquerading as public interest.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) acknowledged the tightrope, saying, “There was a lot of interest among our members in doing something on the PEPFAR issue… We hope the House will accept that one small modification.”

But House conservatives aren’t in the mood for half-measures. They’re demanding full accountability and are finally putting the federal government’s bloated budget on notice.

This bill is about more than a dollar figure. It’s about restoring common-sense priorities to a government that has forgotten who it works for. And under Trump’s leadership, the Republican Party is reminding Washington that the American people come first not foreign regimes, not activist media, and certainly not the professional bureaucrats guarding their golden trough.

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