{"id":22646,"date":"2025-07-17T10:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=22646"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:15:01","slug":"merkley-statement-on-senate-republicans-rubber-stamping-the-trump-administrations-disastrous-doge-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-statement-on-senate-republicans-rubber-stamping-the-trump-administrations-disastrous-doge-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley Statement on Senate Republicans Rubber Stamping the Trump Administration\u2019s Disastrous DOGE Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Senate Republicans Green-lit Cuts to Foreign Aid, Local Public Broadcasting<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Trump Administration\u2019s Actions of Impounding Funds Remain Illegal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee and a senior member of the Senate Appropriations and Senate Foreign Relations Committees, released the following statement after Senate Republicans capitulated to the disastrous cuts proposed by the Trump Administration and intended to appease Elon Musk and the \u201cDepartment of Government Efficiency (DOGE).\u201d This package will dismantle America\u2019s foreign assistance infrastructure, including by effectively dissolving the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and gutting global health, humanitarian, and development programs that save lives and advance America\u2019s interests. This package also strips funding from PBS and NPR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cWhat Senate Republicans did today is give the Administration permission to trample on Congress\u2019s authority and continue its reckless pursuit of impounding funds \u2013 all by gutting an overwhelmingly bipartisan funding bill with a partisan vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cThis does nothing to get rid of \u2018waste, fraud, and abuse.\u2019 Dismantling USAID makes America less safe and damages our leadership in helping countries tackle important issues like nutrition and fighting the three big killers in the world \u2013 tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS. These cuts also deeply undermine America\u2019s influence around the world from trade to national security. And defunding national, fact-based broadcasting outlets like NPR and PBS, shutters local and rural news and radio stations that hardworking families rely on for the news and critical weather updates in times of emergency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is past time that Congressional Republicans hold Trump and DOGE accountable for their illegal actions to impound funds and subvert Congress\u2019s power of the purse, because Trump will stop at nothing to gut services families rely on in order to fund tax cuts for the richest Americans,\u201d <\/strong>said Ranking Member Jeff Merkley.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The passage of this rescissions package does not negate the fact that the Trump Administration has violated the law. 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