House Republicans are urging their Senate GOP colleagues not to make any changes to the bill to claw back billions of dollars in federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, as the party races toward a Friday deadline to send the package to President Trump’s desk.

The warnings come as the Senate is preparing to consider the $9.4 billion measure, known as a rescissions package, which would revoke dollars for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which funds NPR and PBS, two organizations Republicans have deemed biased — and cut funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which the Department of Government Efficiency went after early on.

But moderate GOP senators have taken issue with some of the cuts, not only to public broadcasters who serve rural communities, but to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) — leading to calls to strike some of the White House’s requested cuts.

If the Senate changes the bill, which it is signaling it will do, the measure would have to return to the House for a final stamp of approval before receiving Trump’s signature — a pingpong process that must take place in the next three days, or else the Trump administration will be forced to release the funds as originally appropriated.

“The Friday deadline looms. We're encouraging our Senate partners over there to get the job done and to pass it........

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