{"id":2414,"date":"2025-07-23T15:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:45:35","slug":"senate-passes-9-billion-budget-rollback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2414","title":{"rendered":"Senate Passes $9 Billion Budget Rollback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Senate Approves $9 Billion Spending Cut<\/strong><br>In a close 51-48 vote, the U.S. Senate passed a $9 billion federal spending cut backed by the Trump administration. Supporters say it\u2019s a step toward \u201cresponsible governance\u201d and reducing waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Cuts and Controversy<\/strong><br>The package slashes foreign aid and defunds NPR and PBS. Critics say the proposal lacks clarity. Senator Susan Collins said the $2.5 billion cut to Development Assistance \u201clacked detail on which programs\u2014such as clean water or food security\u2014would be affected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pushback from Rural Senators<\/strong><br>Senators Lisa Murkowski and Collins opposed the cuts, especially to public broadcasting. Murkowski emphasized its emergency role, citing \u201crecent tsunami alerts in Alaska.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Next Steps and Reactions<\/strong><br>Senator Mark Kelly introduced an amendment to reduce the cut to $6 billion, while Murkowski sought to protect local stations. Senator Ron Johnson downplayed the impact, noting it\u2019s \u201cless than 0.1% of the federal budget.\u201d The bill heads to the House for final negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Approves $9 Billion Spending CutIn a close 51-48 vote, the U.S. Senate passed a $9 billion federal spending cut backed by the Trump administration. Supporters say it\u2019s a step toward \u201cresponsible governance\u201d and reducing waste. Key Cuts and ControversyThe package slashes foreign aid and defunds NPR and PBS. Critics say the proposal lacks clarity&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}