The Senate passed a bill to cancel $9 billion in funding to foreign aid and public broadcasting. The House faces a Friday deadline to pass it next. https://t.co/SrT1C7VXvK ...

The Senate passed a bill to cancel $9 billion in funding to foreign aid and public broadcasting. The House faces a Friday deadline to pass it next. https://t.co/mianKDXCx1 ...

Let's talk about some of that business. The Senate voting yesterday to advance debate on funding cuts requested by President Trump. They're aimed at clawing back more than a billion dollars previously granted to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting along with nearly $8 billion allocated for international aid efforts.Um, USAD programs like PEPFAR, which now we're hearing uh actually may be reinstated, which is good news. We'll see if that actually happens. But how do you work as a body now to get back som ...

And joining us now is Tom Abbott, the general manager of KFSK FM, a public radio station that's reliant on that federal funding based out of Petersburg, Alaska, remote island fishing town in the southeastern part of that state. Tom, thanks for being here. Talk about the role your station serves in Alaska, the community you serve.Uh, good morning, Anna. Yeah, thank you. Um, we're a very we're an island community.All of Southeast Alaska is an archipelago of islands where access is by uh air or boat only. We p ...

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Last night, Senate Republicans voted to take up legislation that advances a package of more than $9 billion in spending cuts proposed by President Trump. The procedural vote on the so-called recisions package passed mostly along party lines with Vice President J. Dance breaking a tie.Three Republicans, they were Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Marowsky of Alaska, and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, are all members of the Appropriations Committee, and they all joined every Democrat in voting against advan ...

Democratic Congressman Brennan Bole of Pennsylvania. He is the ranking member on the House Budget Committee. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us.Uh I remember that just a couple of months ago, this was a major story um that Trump was planning on or had been unilaterally anyway trying to defund uh public broadcasting, foreign aid. You've seen some um opposition from some Republican senators like Susan Collins, Lisa Marowski. What do you think the likelihood is that this actually gets through with l ...