Senate Republicans blasted through Democratic and internal opposition to pass President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar clawback package early Thursday morning.

United States senators have passed a package of sweeping cuts that would slash Washington’s foreign aid expenditures by about $8bn as part of President Donald Trump’s pledge to drastically shrink federal spending.

As the Senate moves to vote on its rescissions legislation this week, Bill Gates warned on Monday of the potential harm to the United States Agency for International Development. The GOP-controlled Senate plans to strike $9.

Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in the cases against accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has been fired. Although a reason for the dismissal was not immediately clear, she is also the daughter of James Comey, who is the former director of the FBI and a critic of President Donald Trump.

After days of debate, parliamentarian maneuvers, and more opportunities than we would frankly like for J.D. Vance to be at least nominally important to the national decision-making process, the United States Senate passed a bill in the early hours of Thursday morning that would defund the Corporation Of Public Broadcasting—the independent agency through which the government funds both PBS and NPR—to the tune of more than a billion dollars.

Vice President JD Vance cast two tie-breaking votes in the Senate Tuesday to move forward a $9.4 billion rescissions package — which would rip federal funding from PBS and NPR — in the upper chamber.