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Welcome to registration: The House of Representatives passed a bill dating back to billions of federal funding for foreign aid and public media early on Friday morning, and sent it to President Donald Trump’s office to sign.
What does the bill do? The draft law, which is called the rescue package, targeted about $ 9 billion in financing, and establishes the White House’s request to withdraw the funding that has already been allocated. The vast majority of these funds come from external aid programs. The rest, about $ 1.1 billion, was money for the Public Broadcasting Company (CPB), which funds PBS and NPR and its stations.
What does this mean for external help? The request for rescue operations affects 7.9 billion dollars in spending foreign aid, including immigration and refugee assistance, international peacekeeping, development assistance, and disaster relief.
An external auxiliary program, Pepfar. The $ 400 million of the HIV/AIDS prevention program, which saved millions of lives in years over 20 years of its existence, has been reduced from the rescue package after its recovery by Republicans in the Senate.
What about the public media? Public National Radio receives only a small part of its financing from CPB, but the discounts will affect local and PBS stations more. CPB warned in a statement that the draft law will mean “many local radio and public television stations will be forced to close, and they indicated that it may also affect access to emergency alerts.
Why is this important? This was a relatively small amount of money in the context of the federal budget, but lost financing will have real effects. The draft law also reflects a continuous effort by Trump to seize the power of the wallet from Congress. Senator Lisa Moorkovsky, a member of the Republican Senate who oppose this procedure, said, “What we are getting now is a trend of the White House and is being told,” This is the priority. We want you to implement it. “
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