These Are The Republicans Who Voted Against Trump's $9 Billion Clawback Of Foreign Aid, Npr Funding

Though Senate Republicans were successful successful their ngo to walk President Donald Trump’s clawback package, not each personnel of nan convention was connected board.

Only 2 Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, joined pinch each Senate Democrat to ballot against nan $9 cardinal package geared toward clawing backmost overseas assistance and nationalist broadcasting funding.

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President Donald Trump during a gathering pinch Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Bahrain's crown prince, not pictured, successful nan Oval Office of nan White House successful Washington connected July 16, 2025.  (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Senate Republican leaders had hoped that stripping $400 cardinal successful cuts to Bush-era world AIDS and HIV prevention backing could triumph complete each nan holdouts, some nationalist and private. But nan lawmakers who voted against nan measure had deeper concerns astir nan level of transparency during nan process and nan effect successful rescissions could person connected Congress’ powerfulness of nan purse.  

Collins, who chairs nan Senate Appropriations Committee, said she agreed pinch rescissions successful wide and supports them during nan appropriations process, but couldn’t get down nan White House’s push because of a deficiency of clarity from nan Office of Management and Budget (OMB) astir precisely what would beryllium trim and how.

She said that "the sparse text" sent to lawmakers included small item and did not springiness a circumstantial accounting of programs that would beryllium trim to deed nan original $9.4 cardinal target.

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Sen. Susan Collins addresses nan property astatine Washington Crossing Inn connected November 6, 2022, successful Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania.  (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

"For example, location are $2.5 cardinal successful cuts to nan Development Assistance account, which covers everything from basal education, to h2o and sanitation, to nutrient information — but we don't cognize really those programs will beryllium affected," she said.

Murkowski demanded a return to legislating and appeared to pass that lawmakers were conscionable taking marching orders from nan White House alternatively than doing their ain work. 

Both Murkowski and Collins were besides concerned astir nan cuts to nationalist broadcasting, peculiarly to agrarian power stations. Both attempted to make changes to nan measure during nan vote-a-rama. Collins' yet decided not to bring her amendment, which would person reduced nan full magnitude of cuts successful nan measure to northbound of $6 billion, to nan floor. However, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., still brought nan alteration for a vote. And Murkowski offered an amendment that would person drastically reduced nan cuts to nationalist broadcasting. 

The climactic ballot for nan measure came hours aft tsunami warnings rippled done Alaska, and Murkowski based on that national warnings were relayed done section nationalist broadcasting. 

"The tsunami warnings are now thankfully canceled, but nan informing to nan U.S. Senate remains successful effect," she said. "Today of each days, we should ballot down these misguided cuts to nationalist broadcasting."

Still, some attempts to modify nan measure grounded to walk muster. 

Their determination to spell against nan package near immoderate scratching their heads. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., based on that nan cuts amounted to little than a tenth of a percent of nan national government’s full budget.

"This should beryllium a spot shot, OK? I person religion successful [OMB Director] Russ Vought," he said. "I person religion successful nan Trump administration. They're not going to trim things that are important spending."

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks during a news convention astir precocious state prices astatine nan U.S. Capitol connected May 18, 2022, successful Washington. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., who is starring nan measure successful nan Senate, rebuked nan duo's arguments and said that lawmakers weighing successful connected nan rescissions package was successful statement pinch their legislative duties.

"That's precisely what we're doing," nan Missouri Republican said. "I would dream that possibly what this will besides do is item immoderate of nan wasteful spending, truthful erstwhile we get into nan appropriations process successful nan adjacent fewer months that we would beryllium much keen to beryllium focused connected redeeming group money."

Trump’s bill, which would cancel unspent congressionally approved funding, would slash conscionable awkward of $8 cardinal from nan U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and complete $1 cardinal from nan Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), nan government-backed backing limb for NPR and PBS.

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Some lawmakers, for illustration Sen. Thom Tillis, who earlier this period voted against Trump's "big, beautiful bill" complete cuts to Medicaid funding, understood wherever nan brace were coming from.

The North Carolina Republican told Fox News Digital that Collins, successful particular, would beryllium starring negotiations for an end-of-year bipartisan backing woody pinch Senate Democrats, and to ballot successful favour of canceling congressionally approved backing could wounded her expertise to find a solution to support nan authorities funded.

"I don't deliberation group really understand nan worth of your connection and your consistency and your surviving up to commitments and really important that is to getting things done," Tillis said. "And this, I think, that's what Susan's looking at, I deliberation Murkowski is arsenic well, and I respect them for that."