budget cuts could be coming i'm leicillicara fox news the senate now going through a series of votes

as it prepares to trim about nine billion dollars in the budget it's one-tenth of one percent of all

federal spending and it's a chance for us to claw back some of the waste fraud and abuse in a lot of

these programs senate majority leader john thune on fox's special report with Brett Baer, the budget cuts,

target foreign aid and public broadcasting.

But Senate Republicans restored about 400 million in global AIDS funding and protected some

stations serving native communities.

Congress is facing a Friday deadline to give final approval to the package.

At the White House this afternoon, President Trump signing the Halt Fentanyl Act, which will

increase penalties for traffickers of the drug. The president says it'll get drug dealers off

the streets. The legislation classifies fentanyl as a schedule one narcotic, which means

increased penalties for convictions.

It is now a Tennessee judge's hands whether Kilmar Obrigo Garcia, the man of federal government had wrongly deported, will be released from federal custody.

It was not Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes presiding over Abrago Garcia's status Wednesday.

District Judge Waverly Crenshaw was on the bench hearing from a government witness, Homeland Security Investigator Peter Joseph, who discussed

a traffic stop in 2022 during which Abrago Garcia was suspected of human smuggling. In cross-examination,

Joseph said he had not looked into the defendant's

prior interactions with agents, and the defense said that ruins Joseph's credibility as a witness.

They maintain their client will not flee before any trial. A decision on release could come

as early as next week. Fox's Colonel Scott, following Fox's

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