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