The measure would eliminate $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR, entities that have long been targeted by conservatives for alleged liberal bias. The cut eliminates the full entire amount it’s due to receive during the next two budget years.

Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in the cases against accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has been fired. Although a reason for the dismissal was not immediately clear, she is also the daughter of James Comey, who is the former director of the FBI and a critic of President Donald Trump.

The Republican-led Senate voted to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a move expected to have the most notable impacts in rural areas.

Senate Republicans will tweak President Donald Trump’s $9.4 billion rescission request — the White House’s attempt to give a figleaf of legitimacy to the Department of Government Efficiency’s rampage through the federal government — in order to get key Senate GOP holdouts onboard.

Senate GOP leaders are looking to avoid a repeat of the lengthy and sometimes bewildering floor process that led to the passage of the Trump tax bill by locking down key details with holdouts before the chamber moves to a vote-a-rama Wednesday on a bill to claw back funding.