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 51-48 vote on what's known as a rescissions package is a victory for Trump, who has vowed to shrink the size of the federal government, and who has come under fire from Democrats for adding a projected $3.3 trillion to the debt over the next decade by signing his One Big, Beautiful Bill Act into law earlier this month.

Senators finally passed the package after 2 a.m. Thursday after voting for more than 12 hours on amendments.

The win is more symbolic than anything, as it would cut only one tenth of 1 percent from the federal budget.

Even so, Republicans see it as important progress.

“It’s a small but important step toward fiscal sanity that we all should be able to agree is long overdue,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said before the final vote.

Trump failed to get a $15 billion rescissions package passed during his first term after Senate Republicans balked at the proposal.

This time around, Trump is working with a bigger Senate Republican majority and a GOP conference that is generally more amenable to his agenda than it was seven years ago.

Thune was able to get Trump’s latest rescissions bill over the finish line even though two senior Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted “no.”

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), the chair of the Interior Appropriations subcommittees, opposed the package.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the chair of the Defense Appropriation subcommittee, voted "no" on two procedural votes Tuesday night but voted in favor of final........

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