The Senate removes HIV/AIDS cuts from Trump -enforcement bill before key reconciliation

The Senate Republicans agreed to make changes to President Donald Trump’s clawback package of several billion dollars to help win over Holouds, but by shrinking the total size of the cuts in the process.

Legislators left a meeting with the Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought on Tuesday afternoon and Annoudéd that about $ 400 million in proposed a global AIDS and HIV prevention program WOW was removed from the legislation, with the total clawbacks in the president’s cancellation package for $ 9 billion.

The original suggests that the Bush era president’s emergency plan for AIDS-layout (pepar) rattled some Senate Republicans who warned publicly and privately that they would not support the package if the cuts were left.

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But legislators agreed to separate the expenses with a change, and Senate Management is hopeful that the change will correct enough teams to support the bill during a test voting later Tuesday.

Senate’s majority leader John Thune, Rs.d., can only afford to lose three Republicans during the partisan process.

Thune said after the meeting that there was “a great interest among our members” in seeing the Pepfar cuts removed and expressed hope that ifmakers in the upper chamber could promote the bill, then house -republicans would be for the change.

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After a meeting with the Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, depicted, we on Tuesday afternoon, lawmakers stated that clawback would be reduced to avoid cutting $ 400 million from PepFar. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

The top Senate Republican looks at the first test voting on the bill later on Tuesday night with another vote to start 10 hours of debate shortly after.

The changes to Pepfar also come after late. Mike Rounds, Rs.d., got guarantees that approx. $ 10 million would go against rural radio stations in reserve, which was his primary concern, with cuts now redirected to corporation for public broadcasting (CPB), the state -sponsored financing arm for NPR and PBS.

But where the changes are once to swing key attitudes, like sense. Susan Collins, R-Maine and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, are back to see.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Rs.d., talking during a news conference at US Capitol on June 17, 2025, in Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

A senior official administration pushed back to the narrative of Propéd PepFar cuts and told Fox News Digital that Clawbacks were against limited program cuts targeting “LGBTQ training and capacity building-not core-lifetime care.”

“We are already working with countries and other partners to ensure that they shoulder a greater proportion of the burden where they can,” the official said. “We continue to make targeted investments in the prevention of mother-to-child and other central focus areas.”

Senator Eric Schmitt, who has actions a bridge between the White House and the Senate on the cancellation package, said the change supported, but was still unsure if there were enough votes to get the package across the line.

“I’m not in the prediction industry, but we hopeful that we move on here,” said the Missouri Republican.

Vought argued that it was still “substantially the same package” and not that the Senate had to work with its will on the bill.

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Legislators have Unil on Friday before the midnight stroke to get the bill on the president’s desk, otherwise the White House has billions in funding ends.

“This is perennial funding it has to flow,” Vought. “If we have outside the 45-day window, we have to remove our grip on the money. So we will not implement the cuts if this is if this vote does not go our way.”