The US Senate approved spending cuts proposed by President US Donald Trump, eliminating over $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting funding. The bill will return to the House for final approval before the funding deadline.

The House is looking at President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency’s spending cuts after Senate Republicans agreed to cancel $9 billion in funding to foreign aid and public broadcasting.

Congress has until the end of the week to send the bill to Trump's desk, but the path forward for the rescissions package remains a bit murky.

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 package, which narrowly passed the House in May, would cull back funding from Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio.

Senate Democrats are warning the Trump administration’s effort to claw back funds for foreign aid and public broadcasting programs threatens bipartisan negotiations to fund the government