In the wee hours of Thursday morning, the Senate passed President Trump’s rescission proposal to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and cut foreign-aid funding.

The final vote in the 2 am hour was 51-48, with Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joining all Democrats in voting against it. Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) was hospitalized before the vote.

Unlike the previous procedural votes, Vice President J.D. Vance was not required to break a tie. Former Senate leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voted against the preceding procedural votes to advance the package on Tuesday night, but backed the bill at final passage.

This rescission package will now be sent to the House, which has until Friday to pass it.

"I appreciate all the work the administration has done in identifying wasteful spending," Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said. "And now it’s time for the Senate to do its part to cut some of that waste out of the budget. It’s a small but important step toward fiscal sanity that we all should be able to agree is long overdue."

Sen. Murkowski sounded like a Democrat in dismissing the relentless bias of PBS and NPR, saying the vote is “a reminder that when we hear people rant about how public broadcasting is nothing more than this radical, liberal effort to pollute people’s minds, I think they need to look at what some of the basic services are to communities." NPR and PBS both aired puffball interviews with Murkowski in the last few days.