The Senate voted early Thursday to claw back $9 billion in federal funding for global aid programs and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, sending the package requested by President Trump to the House for a final vote.

The way Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) tells it, the only way to fight the "oligarchs" is to travel like one. The socialist senator’s campaign spent nearly $230,000 on chartered private jets during the second quarter of 2025 .