Reporter's Notebook: GOP lawmakers prepare to slash $9.1B from USAID, NPR and PBS in rare vote

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DOGE targeted tens of billions of dollars in what it deemed waste, fraud and abuse. 

But that means nothing unless Congress acts. 

For the first time in three decades, lawmakers will vote today to claw back money already appropriated. This is money DOGE recommended eliminating, and since Congress has the power of the purse, that requires a roll call vote. 

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: HOW THE HOUSE IS TECHNICALLY DONE WITH THE ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’

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