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NEW: Bipartisan government funding is at risk of dying The appropriations process has been on a decline for years, under both parties, but it always remained a two-party operation. New moves by the red trifecta to modify or disrupt funding deals on party lines (more money for…

I wrote about what it was like growing up as a child in the Bosnian civil war, where food was extremely scarce. I didn't have much, but at least UNICEF was there to help keep me alive. Congress just defunded it, putting lives at risk around the world. huffpost.com/entry/trump-cu…

Sen COLLINS on Vought's comments on govt funding: "If you're interested in funding government, you have to have 60 votes. That means that it has to be a bipartisan process. Mr. Vought's lack of respect and apparent lack of understanding of how Congress operates is baffling…

Sen Murkowski says she'll change her vote on the CJS Approps bill related to the FBI HQ location to allow it to advance to the floor and have the debate during amendment votes on the bill.

THUNE responds to this: “Well, that runs contrary to what, you know, the math tells us around here. So, we need 60 on approps bills, and it's going to take 60 to fund the government.”

OVERNIGHT: GOP-led Senate votes to cancel $9 billion in funding for foreign aid, NPR and PBS Final: 51-48. Murkowski + Collins join all Democrats to vote NO. McConnell, who voted against MTP, switched to YES on the final. W/ @frankthorp @brennanleach: nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

McConnell says his beef w/ rescission package is that the White House hasn't detailed how they will implement the cuts; he says they want the equivalent of a "blank check" to write their preferences. "And I don’t think that’s appropriate." w/ @frankthorp: nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

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Sen Schmitt: "Let the vote-a-rama begin." cc: @RWrasse, @Cooksey__ @staceydanielsDC

Q: Does Trump have the legal authority to fire Powell? TILLIS: "I think anybody has authority for cause, I just don't think there's a legal basis for cause, and I think it'd be a colossal mistake. "

Tillis talked to us just now on this — “If I’m a Democrat I’d say ‘I’d like to vote for year-end appropriations, but now I see that I could vote for this & 6 months later I could have a rescissions package for it’” “We’ve got to worry about how this process affects the Senate”

Sen TILLIS on the Senate floor says he will support the rescissions bill, but says, "If we find out that some of these programs that we've communicated should be out of bounds, that advisors to the President decide that they're going to cut anyway, then there will be a reckoning…