On Capitol Hill today, senators questioned President Trump's budget director Russell vote over the administration's proposed funding cuts to foreign aid and public media.

Our congressional correspondent, Lisa Desjardin, was there and joins us now for an update.

Okay, so Lisa, tell us what you learned today and remind us what's happening here, why this all matters.

Right, it matters for two reasons.

One, this is a first and key test of the Trump and Doge

Elon Musk philosophy for cuts. Does Congress actually agree with the specifics here?

Second, a lot is on the line here for foreign aid, billions of dollars that would affect

communities overseas, and also two years of funding for public broadcasting.

We did learn some things today from

vote. We learned more about exactly what he thinks the administration is doing here. And he said

the cuts that they're doing are broad on purpose because they don't trust the NGOs, the sort of

non-profits, that have been administering them. He said they're too liberal and he says the point is

that they need to be cut off.

We don't want to re-up the same spending to the same NGO with a different grant title.

That's not success here.

And so it will take some time for us to be able to find the types of groups that can dispense these funds in ways that are consistent

with this administration's priorities.

And he argues they're also against American priorities.

Now part of this revolves around global health money, which includes PEPFAR and money for HIV

prevention.

That's very controversial.

Many senators want to keep it. He said there is no

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