“Senate Republicans will scale back the White House’s $9.4 billion spending clawback request as they look to shore up their vote count,” Politico reports.“Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who is leading the rescissions effort in concert with the White House, said Republicans will remove a $400 million cut to the global AIDS program known as PEPFAR, bringing the total amount of cuts in the package down to $9 billion.”