Welcome to the NewsHour. The clock is ticking for Congress to claw back more than $9 billion of federal funding for programs including foreign aid and public media.

Tomorrow is the final deadline for the House to pass the so-called rescissions package, which is a priority for President Trump.

Lisa Desjardin joins me now with the latest.

Lisa, bring us up to speed where this rescission's bill is.

Well, the House is preparing to vote. My reporting is it will happen very late tonight or perhaps

in the early morning hours. This is the final vote needed to pass these immediate cuts.

And my reporting is that the votes are, in fact, there.

Those who have opposed this in the past told me today that now they are more or less on board.

There may still be a few no Republican votes, but this is on track to pass later tonight.

Now, it should go without saying this is a major victory for President Trump and his ability

to sway Congress.

Many Republicans did not want to vote on this, thought this was really not worth their time.

It's not really a lot of money in the scheme of the whole federal budget.

And many of them privately would have voted no if it was a secret ballot vote.

But this is on track to pass in the next hours.

Given that, we've talked about this quite a bit over the last few weeks. This is going to have some impacts. Let's talk about those impacts on

public broadcasting. Right. The public broadcasting portion is $1.1 billion. It's the smaller

portion, but it is the only portion where funding is completely eliminated.

All of the funding for public broadcasting for the next two years is eliminated here.

Very significant.

Now, NPR has, their CEO has put out a statement saying this is a risk to public safety because of potential cuts to emergency broadcast, for example.

And also PBS's CEO, Paula Kerger,

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