US Congress approves spending cuts slashing public media | DW News

Tamara Ceaikovski

We start in the United States, where Congress has given final approval to Donald Trump's request to claw back nine-billion dollars of government spending. The so-called "rescission package" cancels funding that lawmakers had already allocated. The bill passed narrowly last night in the House of Representatives, with only two Republicans joining Democrats to oppose it. Most of the cuts target foreign aid approved before Trump returned to office -- programs the White House now describes as "waste,

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