Thune says Senate on track to move $9.4B in funding cuts after locking down key vote

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says the Senate is on track to vote Tuesday evening on a package clawing back approximately $9.4 billion in congressionally approved spending, making the announcement shortly locking down Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a key vote.

Thune told The Hill that the Senate is on track to vote both Tuesday on both the motion to discharge the rescissions package out of the Appropriations Committee, and then to vote on the motion to proceed to the legislation on the floor.

The schedule reflects Senate GOP leaders’ confidence that they have the votes to pass the package.

Thune said the bill has the green light to move, shortly after Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said he would vote for the measure.

“I will now vote to support President Trump’s rescissions package to clawback $9.4 billion in federal spending. We want to make sure tribal broadcast services in South Dakota continued to operate which provide potentially lifesaving emergency alerts,” Rounds announced in a post on X.

Rounds said he worked with the Trump administration “to find Green New Deal money that could be reallocated to continue grants to tribal radio stations without interruption.”

He thanked Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought and Senate GOP leaders “for working with us to favorably resolve this issue.”