Friday, July 18 - The House has passed H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025, by a vote of 216-213. WVTF Public Radio lost $300,000.00 per year in previously appropriated federal funding for the next two years.
Thursday, July 17
The Senate passed H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025, by a vote of 51-48. It now moves back to the House for consideration, and another vote this week.
Wednesday, July 16
Debate has begun on the rescissions package, H.R. 4. The Senate will gavel in at 10:00am, and you can follow floor action live via this link. The Senate can debate for up to 10 hours, with time divided equally between the parties, but Majority Leader Thune stated that the vote-a-rama will begin around 1:30pm ET – an indication that not all of the debate time will be used. Senators will take votes on an undetermined number of amendments, with a couple of minutes for a sponsor and an opposing Member to speak about the amendment, and then a 10-minute vote.
Because of the rapidly moving process, it is difficult to predict which amendments Senators may submit and call up amendments. We do expect amendments to be filed on public media funding.
If the Senate amends the package, it will go back to the House, and we expect the House to act on it by July 18.
Tuesday, July 15
The Senate voted on a motion to discharge the bill from the Appropriations Committee and move it to the floor. The vote passed 51-50. Vice President Vance broke the tie.
The Senate then voted on the motion to proceed. The vote passed 51-50. Vice President Vance also broke that tie.
Friday, July 11
The Senate is indicating that there will likely be an initial procedural vote on Tuesday, July 15 on H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025.
Passage of a procedural vote would kick off 10 hours of debate then a series of votes on any amendments. Once they move through amendments, the Senate would hold a final vote on the package.
June 12
House votes to claw back $1.1 billion from public media
The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation Thursday to eliminate the next two years of federal funding for public media outlets.
It did so at the direct request of President Trump, who has accused NPR and PBS of bias against conservative viewpoints as part of his broader attacks on the mainstream media.
The measure passed largely along party lines, 214 to 212, with two key Republican lawmakers switching their votes from "no" to "yes" to push it over the finish line.
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