00:00The Republican-led House has narrowly passed U.S. President Donald Trump's $9 billion funding cut to public media and foreign aid.
00:09The final tally was 216 to 213, with GOP representatives Mike Turner and Brian Fitzpatrick, the only Republicans to vote against the package.
00:22The package now heads to the White House to be signed into law.
00:25The Senate revised the package earlier this week, removing US$400 million in proposed cuts to the global PEPFAR HIV-AIDS program.
00:34House Republicans faced added pressure to approve the Senate version, as the Trump administration would have been required to spend the funds if Congress did not approve the cuts by Friday.
00:45The US$9 billion cut represents about one-tenth of one percent of the US$6.8 trillion federal budget.
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