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Senate Republicans on Tuesday narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle on the path to clawing back billions of dollars in funding previously authorized by Congress for foreign aid and public
A new bill introduced in Congress aims to block the District of Columbia from maintaining sister city relationships with foreign adversaries, targeting its longstanding partnership with Beijing. House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik and Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman John Moolenaar announced the Washington Sister Cities Act on Wednesday.
Senate Republicans had barely enough votes Tuesday to advance President Trump's proposal to claw back money appropriated for public broadcasting and foreign aid.
The bill, known as the GENIUS Act, is the first major crypto legislation ever passed by Congress. It now heads to President Trump’s desk. It passed in a bipartisan vote of 308 to 122, with 206 Republicans and 102 Democrats supporting it.
The rescissions bill to claw back funding approved for foreign aid, NPR and PBS is a top Trump priority, but some Senate Republicans have raised concerns about the cuts.
House Republicans are urging seven U.S. universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship program that lawmakers call a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese government
Asked if Republicans may try to derail President Biden's foreign policy ahead of the 2024 race, expert Mark Cancian told Newsweek, "that's called politics." U.S. World