How Trump’s new budget cuts could endanger the 2026 federal budget

Senate Republicans hope to approve a $9.4 billion rescissions package this week that will cut $8.3 billion from foreign aid programs and $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

To ratify some of the good work the administration has done in identifying wasteful and inappropriate uses of taxpayer dollars

But Democrats are coming out against the package because everything it cuts was previously agreed to on a bipartisan basis

How are we supposed to negotiate a bipartisan deal if Republicans turn around and put it through the shredder in a partisan vote

In this video, we'll explain how rescinding this year's funding will have serious implications for the 2026 federal budget

So this all comes down to the numbers. The Senate has 53 Republicans and 47 Democrats

Appropriations bills, also known as government funding bills, need 60 votes for approval

As you can see, that means Republicans and Democrats have to work together to complete the 2026 federal budget

A rescissions package only needs a simple majority vote to be approved in the Senate

That means Republicans can pass them without any input from Democrats. So where does that put us

Democrats say if Republicans approve this rescissions package they may not be willing to make a bipartisan deal to fund the government next year These investments were negotiated on a bipartisan basis between Democrats and Republicans as part of the government funding process

And with a simple majority vote, Republicans could take away the investments they all voted

for, or many of them voted for, and renege on their word. This is how Senator Schumer described the situation to his fellow Democrats

quote, Republicans are in effect proposing Congress negotiate bipartisan deals in the committee room

while they retreat to a back room to rubber stamp President Trump's purely partisan scheme

that only needs a simple majority to pass to tear up those very same agreements

Republicans, meanwhile, say this package is about cutting back on government bloat

They point to the funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which gives money to NPR and PBS stations around the country

There's no question that NPR is extremely left-leaning and there's nothing middle of the road about NPR radio

So that's a problem. They've kind of done this to themselves. If Republicans want to rescind this funding, it has to be done by July 18th

Meanwhile, a 2026 government funding bill doesn't have to be approved until the end of September

I'm Ray Bogan for Straight Arrow News. For more unbiased reporting straight from our nation's capital, download the SAN app