{"id":1264308,"date":"2025-07-17T13:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/financial-blow-us-senate-cuts-international-aid-and-public-broadcasting-budgets\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:09:23","slug":"financial-blow-us-senate-cuts-international-aid-and-public-broadcasting-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/financial-blow-us-senate-cuts-international-aid-and-public-broadcasting-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial blow: US Senate cuts international aid and public broadcasting budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The US Senate has approved a $9 billion budget cut to federal programs supporting foreign countries and public broadcasting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5405515-senate-trump-cuts-global-aid-public-broadcasting-rescissions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> The Hill.<\/p>\n<p> After more than 12 hours of discussions, the document was adopted by a vote of 51 to 48 around 2 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> The law provides for a reduction of almost $8 billion in funding for international initiatives, including development programs, economic assistance, USAID&#8217;s global health projects, and assistance to refugees and victims of international crises.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will be reduced by more than $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p> According to the publication, this decision is considered a political victory for President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly emphasized the need to reduce federal government spending. However, the real effect is limited &#8211; the budget reduction is only 0.1% of total spending.<\/p>\n<p> The bill will now be sent to the House of Representatives for consideration.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, the administration of US President Donald Trump announced <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/administratsiia-trampa-skasuvala-ponad-90-hrantiv-usaid\/\">the cancellation of more than 90% of grants allocated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of foreign aid.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As a result, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/usaid-v-ukraini-tymchasovo-pryzupyniaie-vsi-proiekty-ta-vydatky-na-nykh\/\">the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) office in Ukraine was ordered to halt all projects and spending on them<\/a> . This came after the U.S. State Department ordered a 90-day suspension of aid programs to other countries for an audit.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Senate has approved a $9 billion budget cut to federal programs supporting foreign countries and public broadcasting. This is reported by The Hill. After more than 12 hours of discussions, the document was adopted by a vote of 51 to 48 around 2 a.m. Thursday. The law provides for a reduction of almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1253545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76892],"class_list":["post-1264308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1253545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}