Only 2

Women GOP hold-out votes (2) were the only

defections for the Senate Majority leadership

jamming through the Rescission bill depriving

NPR - PBS of its already appropriated earlier

$1.1 billion of funds promised to CPB

as well as Foreign Aid of $8 billion.

The last such RESCISSION bill was in 1999,

during the Clinton-Gore second term.

In order to gain near unanimity, the leadership

(John Thune of South Dakota) agreed to

strip out a line item of $400 million for

PEPFAR (a Bush-Cheney era program to stop

Global AIDS spread) -- it is unclear for how many

Republican U.S. Senators this mattered.

Also shielded were massive funding for Jordan

and Egypt, allies of Israel, another major concern

of the Trump-Vance administration, in these days 

of bombing strikes that returned to Damascus, Syria

as well as early summer massive devastation to

Teheran, Iran and other Iranian military and nuclear

sites.

IN FURTHER UPDATES: members of both

parties must meet a Sept. 30, 2025 shutdown

deadline or else the entire government will

lack funds for basic services such as the National

Parks and civilian workers in Federal branch

offices both in D.C. and in satellite locations.

This is the first "Shutdown" test that the 

bipartisan appropriations funding will face

since the Capitol Rotunda inauguration swearing-in

of Donald John Trump and VP JD Vance on

Jan. 20, 2025.