The U.S. Senate late Tuesday advanced President Donald Trump’s proposed rescission package but voted to exclude the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, from the cuts. An amendment preserving roughly $400 million for the flagship HIV-AIDS program passed after bipartisan pressure; Vice President JD Vance broke a 50-50 procedural tie earlier in the day. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought told reporters the White House is “fine” with the exemption and still backs the broader bill. Removing the PEPFAR reduction trims the overall package to about $9 billion from $9.4 billion in previously approved foreign-aid and public-broadcasting funds that Trump seeks to claw back. The measure now returns to the House, which must act before a Friday deadline for the legislation to reach the president’s desk. Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell and Susan Collins opposed moving the bill forward, citing concerns over other health and media cuts. Created in 2003 by President George W. Bush, PEPFAR is credited by the State Department with saving 26 million lives and preventing about 5.5 million babies from being born with HIV. Global health groups warned that scaling back the program would jeopardize drug supplies and treatment in more than 50 countries. While advocates welcomed the Senate reprieve, they noted that other U.S. foreign-aid reductions remain and could still disrupt international disease-control efforts if enacted.