WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans reached an agreement Tuesday with the White House on a slimmed-down $9 billion package of spending cuts that preserves funding for AIDS treatments in Africa, a key concern for a group of GOP lawmakers.

Both Louisiana senators support the elimination of federal funds for public broadcasting, which is at the center of a controversial budget bill the U.S. Senate is scheduled to

Democrats also scoffed at the GOP’s stated motivation for taking up the bill. The amount of savings pales compared to the $3.4 trillion in projected deficits over the next decade that Republicans put in motion in passing Trump’s big tax and spending cut bill two weeks ago.