(Washington) The American Chamber of Republican Republican representatives narrowly approved on Thursday the revocation of more than $ 9.4 billion in federal public funds already allocated, under the leadership of the White House and the Doge of Elon Musk.
The funds were intended in particular for the USAID development aid and the public media NPR and PBS.
The Congress’s lower room spent the text with 214 votes for and 212 against, two Republican elected officials having changed their initial “no” after discussions in the hemicycle with their leader, the “speaker” Mike Johnson.
“Under the leadership of President Trump, your taxpayer money is now no longer wasted,” said Mike Johnson in a statement after the vote, which comes a few days after the thunderous quarrel between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, who concluded the most rich man’s involvement in the federal affairs.
The Senate, also in a republican majority, must now in turn approve of the revocation of these funds, carried out at the request of the White House.
Donald Trump welcomed his Truth Social platform from this text which allows us to “recover $ 9.4 billion in funds for a waste -fed foreign aid”, before tackling the NPR radio and the PBS television channel, “highly biased” according to the Republican president, and who risk losing $ 1.1 billion which were intended for them.
“NPR and PBS are an extreme left disaster and 1000 % against the Republican Party,” accused the 78 -year -old president.
He had signed a decree in early May ordering to “stop funding” of the two public media, and which NPR recently attacked in court.
The American Constitution provides that the congress only has the power to allocate federal public funds. The text adopted in the House of Representatives thus aims to give the force of law to the cuts identified by DOGE and requested by the White House, while these funds had already been approved previously by the Congress.
Among them, $ 8.3 billion was allocated with aid abroad via USAID. The agency was one of the first targets of Doge and has since been almost dismantled.
Global public health projects, such as the PEPFAR program to combat AIDS (created under President Bush Fils), are also said to be affected with 400 million dollars canceled.
