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House votes to claw back $9.4bn in spending including from NPR and PBS (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

To be clear, they're cutting an extra $9.4 Billion in services. Maybe it's used differently in British English but in the US "claw back" as an idiom generally refers to a win for an underdog party to keep something after a difficult fight, not a privileged party ending access to something.

[–] Schwim@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Whoever wrote the title was just trying to insinuate something extra vicious and violent in nature. It's a common part of our fair and unbiased media.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

That's not at all what that means.

Claw back implies money (or something else) has already been sent out and is trying to once again be retrieved from the receiving party.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

This is just completely incorrect. Claw back in no way suggests an underdog.