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Senate Republican negotiators announced they would remove PEPFAR from the $9 billion rescission package after sustained pressure from evangelical Christian groups and global health advocates. The carve-out represented a significant concession by the Trump administration, which had originally included PEPFAR cuts. Senate Majority Leader Thune brokered the compromise to preserve enough Republican votes for final passage.

Vice President JD Vance and Senator Tom Cotton appeared on Sunday news programs and repeated administration claims about Iran's nuclear capabilities that contradicted leaked intelligence assessments. Both asserted Iran was weeks from a deliverable nuclear weapon, a claim that differed sharply from the NSA and CIA timeline. Fact-checkers at major outlets rated the specific claims false within hours of broadcast.