The U.S. Senate approved a $9 billion rescissions package sought by President Donald Trump, voting 51–48 in the early hours of Thursday. The legislation revives a rarely used budget procedure to cancel previously appropriated funds and marks one of the administration’s most significant victories in its drive to shrink federal outlays. The bill eliminates roughly $1.1 billion earmarked for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels money to more than 1,500 PBS and NPR stations, and withdraws about $8 billion from foreign-aid accounts overseen largely by the U.S. Agency for International Development. After pushback from several Republicans, the Senate version restored $400 million for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, trimming but not cutting the global HIV/AIDS program. Only two Republicans—Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska—joined Democrats in opposing the measure. Earlier in the week, a 50-50 procedural deadlock was broken by Vice President J.D. Vance, allowing the bill to reach final passage. Critics in both parties warned that ceding discretion to the White House Office of Management and Budget could undermine Congress’s constitutional power of the purse. Because senators amended the version the House passed last month, the package now returns to the House, which must clear it by Friday under statutory time limits for rescissions. Administration officials, including Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, have signalled that additional rounds of spending claw-backs could follow.