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with the five things you need to know for Thursday, July 17th.

President Donald Trump is one step closer to having Congress officially sign off on a package of Doge spending cuts.

On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 48, and on this vote, the bill is amended as passed.

Senate Republicans passed a bill in the early hours of this morning to cancel $9 billion

in funding to foreign aid and public broadcasting.

It now goes back to the House for final approval, which, under the budget rules the Republicans

are using, has until Friday to pass, before it'll head to Trump's desk.

Roughly $8 billion will be taken from foreign aid programs that had already been approved by Congress,

as part of the White House's efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Another $1.1 billion comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps fund NPR and PBS.

Trump and his team have worked for weeks to convince Republicans to pass the package.

And they did have to make a major concession after GOP Senators demanded protection for a Bush-era program to fight AIDS around the world. 20 Democratic-led states are suing FEMA for canceling a grant program that helps communities protect themselves from natural disasters.

The Associated Press reports that the lawsuit was filed yesterday and claims the Trump administration broke the law by announcing

in April that it was ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program.

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