The US Senate voted to rescind two years' worth of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), delivering a blow to public radio and television stations around the country. The CPB is a publicly funded nonprofit corporation that supports NPR and PBS stations.

The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote as soon as Thursday on President Donald Trump's $9 billion funding cut to public media and to foreign aid, after the U.S. Senate approved the package.

Senate appropriators on Thursday advanced plans for a $456 billion budget for Veterans Affairs programs and benefits next fiscal year, putting it generally in line with House and White House goals for future department spending.

Senate Republicans appear to be on track to pass President Donald Trump’s rescissions package after removing funding cuts to an

Senate Republicans say they have the votes to pass a package of $9 billion in spending cuts, which would give President Trump another big legislative victory in less than a month, after GOP

The rescissions package is a request from Trump to Congress to immediately rescind funding on 22 items that lawmakers have previously approved. That is a tiny portion — 0.1% — of the annual federal budget. The bulk of the cuts are to foreign aid — $8.3 billion in cuts to current funding.

The Senate narrowly approved a White House request to claw back $9 billion from the federal budget. The final vote on Thursday morning was 51-48. Sens. Susan Collins, R.-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R.-Alaska,