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Senate sends $9 billion rescissions package to the House - Roll Call

Senate sends $9 billion rescissions package to the House - Senate

Rachel Oswald at Roll Call:

The Senate early Thursday narrowly passed, 51-48, a $9 billion foreign aid and public media rescissions package, sending the spending cancellations sought by President Donald Trump back to the House where the clock is ticking to get it cleared by Friday. GOP moderates Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska broke ranks to back the final measure. The House is expected to take up the amended legislation later on Thursday. Senators ended a 13-hour vote-a-rama after adopting, 52-47, a Republican substitute that stripped out a $400 million rescission to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a popular anti-HIV program, and barred any remaining rescissions from taking away funding for agriculture and nutrition assistance and some country-specific grants, including to Jordan and Egypt. [...] Kentucky Republican Rand Paul was the lone Republican to oppose the substitute, which the Senate took nearly two dozen votes on. Attention now moves to the House where intra-Republican feuding on Wednesday temporarily delayed adoption of a rule to allow for same-day votes on the rescissions package. But leaders reached a deal late in the evening on unrelated crypto legislation that cleared a path for the rescissions measure, which must be passed by Congress by midnight Friday under a process set out by a 1974 budget law. Failure to meet that timeline would mean the modified package, which includes $7.9 billion in foreign aid cuts and $1.1 billion in canceled spending for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, must be unfrozen by the White House and spent as originally directed by Congress.

The Senate voted 51-48 to pass the $9BN rescission package aimed at cancelling PBS and NPR and foreign aid. 2 Republicans (Collins, Murkowski) joined all Democrats who voted to vote NO.

The House will take it up next, and it must pass by 12:00AM ET/11:00PM CT this evening for it to be valid.

See Also:

Reuters, via The Guardian: US Senate passes aid and public broadcasting cuts in victory for Trump

AP, via HuffPost: Senate Passes Trump's Spending Cuts To Public Broadcasting, Foreign Aid

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Coalition of National Civil Rights & Advocacy Organizations Issue Joint Statement on Senator Manchin’s Compromise Memo

On June 16, 2021, Senator Manchin released a compromise memo to H.R. 1, For The People Act. The following is a response to this memo signed by a coalition of national civil rights and advocacy organizations.

As we commemorate the courageous work and sacrifices of the Freedom Riders of 1961, we know our responsibility is to build upon this strong foundation and legacy.

Today, the fight for justice and progress continues as we work to protect equal and fair access to the ballot box for all voters. We are clear and consistent in our demand that Congress pass the For The People Act (H.R.1; S. 1) and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

More than 150 million voters turned out to vote in the 2020 elections. Since the House passed H.R. 1, it has received strong bipartisan support from voters across the country. People are demanding swift passage of this legislation without compromise. Instead, our demands have been met with weak legislative proposals, compromises and barriers. But freedom is non-negotiable. And we will not rest until justice is served.

Senator Manchin’s compromise fails to adequately address the more than 400 voter suppression measures that are being introduced across the country. This proposal also negates the years of work that thousands of voting rights advocates and policymakers have given to the creation of legislation accepted by voters across this country. Most damaging is its neglect of protections for formerly incarcerated and justice impacted voters; voters with disabilities; Black and all multi-marginalized voters. There has been no indication from Senator Manchin’s reported conversations with conservatives that he has been able to secure Republican support for any of the core elements of S1 which is disappointing to the many activists who are pushing for passage of the bill.

In 1963, at the March on Washington, Bayard Rustin demanded that Congress pass the Civil Rights law with no compromises, and in 2021 his tenacious spirit to move Black people into liberty remains.

Congress must meet this moment with the same courage and commitment exhibited by the Freedom Riders of 1961 and today. Our coalition is united in our pursuit of collective liberation. We demand that Congress listen to the majority of voters across this country and pass the For The People Act immediately.

In Solidarity,

The Daniel Initiative

Center for Disability Rights

Black Voters Matter Fund

Advancement Project National Office

Philip Randolph Institute

Community of Hope AME Church

DemCast USA

Hip Hop Caucus

Metropolitan AME Church

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)

National Council of Negro Women

National Organization for Women

Neighbors United for DC Statehood

NETWORK Advocates for Catholic Social Justice

Rise Up West Virginia

Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Southern California

SPLC Action Fund

The Daniel Initiative S.E.T. Project

The Frontline

The Workers Circle

Transformative Justice Coalition

Women’s March

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Rep. Terri Sewell Introduces H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

Today, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) introduced H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. This critical legislation would ...

Today, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) introduced H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. This critical legislation would restore key protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) which were gutted by the Supreme Court in the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision and more recently in the 2021 Brnovich v. DNC decision.

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Why Congress must pass HR 1 and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act - Roll Call

OPINION — HR 1 and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act would help us build a democracy in which everyone can vote and make their voices hear

We've taken a breather after Trump, but as you know, the GOP is rushing through new voter suppression laws and gerrymandering in most states, including laws making it possible for gerrymander-elected officials chosen by the minority to overturn Congressional and Pesidential election results they don't like.

As soon as 2022, the House of Reps and the Senate could be ruled by an antidemocratic party that silences and rejects the votes of the majority of US citizens.

Trump's grip on GOP sparks fears about democratic process

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Bye-bye, Big Bird: GOP inches closer to gutting public media

On Tuesday, Senate Republicans moved one step closer to cutting billions in congressionally appropriated funding Dear Leader Donald Trump di

Emily Singer at Daily Kos:

On Tuesday, Senate Republicans moved one step closer to cutting billions in congressionally appropriated funding Dear Leader Donald Trump dislikes, after Vice President JD Vance broke a tie to advance a recissions package that defunds NPR and PBS, and cuts billions in foreign aid. A recissions package is not subject to the filibuster, so Senate Republicans only need a simple majority for it to pass. Three Republicans—Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky—voted against moving the package to debate, requiring Vance to break the tie. Passing this recissions package—which would make permanent some of the cuts former co-President Elon Musk tried to make through his incompetent and destructive Department of Government Efficiency—is problematic for multiple reasons.

First and foremost, it would be damaging for rural Americans who both rely on publicly funded PBS and NPR stations for weather warnings and more, and also receive billions in foreign aid money growing crops that are distributed to poor countries across the globe.

“For Republicans to turn around and slash local news and public radio in the name of fiscal responsibility is a vindictive swipe at rural America, where these stations are needed so badly. It’ll leave rural communities twisting in the wind,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement Monday night after Vance’s tie-breaking vote.  It would also be damaging for Congress' ability to pass future government funding bills down the road. It shows the Democratic senators—who voted for the government spending bill—that any deals they make in future government funding negotiations are just smoke and mirrors if Republicans will turn around and strip that funding away through the recissions process.

The US Senate moves one step closer to passing the dangerous anti-American rescissions package that cuts funding to PBS and NPR, along with billions in foreign aid. The Senate voted 51-50 to advance the bill to a final vote, with all Democrats and Republican Sens. Collins, Murkowski, and McConnell voting against rescission, necessitating VP JD. Vance to break the tie.

See Also:

The Guardian: Republicans begin vote-a-rama on bill slashing $9bn from public broadcasting and foreign aid