The Republican National Committee is hailing the Senate overcoming two GOP holdouts siding with Democrats who wanted to keep the spigots flowing on "wasteful" government spending.
"While Democrats are focused on spending your hard-earned money on wasteful government projects, President Trump is committed to putting more money in your pockets," RNC national press secretary Kiersten Pels concluded in a statement Thursday.
"President Trump is working for you!"
The RNC praised the Senate's 50-48 passage of the $9 billion rescissions bill that ended $1.1 billion in funding for "radical broadcasting programs" and another $7.9 billion in free foreign aid. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who frequently vote with Democrats against Trump agenda items, were the only GOP holdouts.
"Senate Republicans passed President Trump's rescissions package, slashing $9 billion in wasteful government spending," Pels' statement began. "In just six months, President Trump and Republicans achieved what Americans had been demanding for years, despite every Senate Democrat voting against it."
In a signal for the Senate majority battleground in the 2026 midterms, the RNC is targeting three Democrat senators that might be vulnerable to having their seats flipped in Georgia, Virginia, and New Mexico.
"Every Senate Democrat, including Senators Jon Ossoff, Mark Warner, and Ben Ray Lujan voted to squander your hard-earned tax dollars to push a radical left-wing agenda," she continued.
"President Trump's rescission package defunds radical broadcasting programs like NPR and PBS and cuts billions of dollars for left-wing foreign aid projects and NGOs."
Pels also noted the cutting of waste, fraud, and abuse in Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom's over budget, delayed, and failed high-speed train project.
"President Trump also halted Gov. Gavin Newsom's grossly incompetent $135 billion boondoggle building a failed train to nowhere," she wrote.
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