{"id":11332,"date":"2025-07-15T18:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/global-aids-funding-to-be-pulled-from-trump-clawbacks-request\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T18:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T18:32:04","slug":"global-aids-funding-to-be-pulled-from-trump-clawbacks-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/global-aids-funding-to-be-pulled-from-trump-clawbacks-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Global AIDS funding to be pulled from Trump clawbacks request"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Republicans will scale back the White House&#8217;s $9.4 billion spending clawback request as they look to shore up their vote count.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), who is leading the rescissions effort in concert with the White House, said Republicans will remove a $400 million cut to the global AIDS program known as PEPFAR, bringing the total amount of cuts in the package down to $9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt&#8217;s comments came after White House Budget Director Russ Vought briefed senators during a closed-door lunch. Schmitt said the White House is on board with the change, which he said is currently the only one being made to the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Any changes to the Senate product will necessitate another House vote ahead of a Friday deadline for action on the request.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans will scale back the White House&#8217;s $9.4 billion spending clawback request as they look to shore up their vote count. Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), who is leading the rescissions effort in concert with the White House, said Republicans will remove a $400 million cut to the global AIDS program known as PEPFAR, bringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}