Senate Must Pass White House Rescissions Package 

For far too long, leaders in Washington have wasted hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars on woke and weaponized programs, including outright propaganda that only the faculty of Harvard could support. The White House’s rescissions package reins in this waste and restores common sense as we work to get our fiscal house in order. The legislation to codify Department of Government Efficiency cuts has already passed the House, and now it’s time for the Senate to finish the job.

The American people know waste, fraud, and abuse when they see it, and this $9.4 billion package of proposed cuts represents the worst of the worst. 

For decades, National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service have served as leftist propaganda outlets, and billions in federal tax dollars have subsidized their efforts. One study by the Media Research Center found 90% of the coverage of LGBTQ issues on PBS’ flagship program, “PBS NewsHour,” was dedicated to radical left-wing activists. 

Unsurprisingly, PBS pushed the documentary “Real Boy,” which glorifies transgender madness, as it follows a teen girl’s “transitioning” into a man. The network also used “PBS NewsHour” to attack a small Texas town’s annual Christmas parade for keeping the event family friendly and not allowing floats with drag queens. 

NPR is equally guilty of promoting leftist narratives at the expense of taxpayers. In a House hearing earlier this year, Rep. Jim Jordan grilled NPR CEO Katherine Maher over the network’s bias, highlighting how their D.C. editorial staff had 87 registered Democrats and zero registered Republicans. Equally concerning, Rep. Tim Burchett used his time in that same hearing to question Maher about her past tweets criticizing President Donald Trump, including ones where she called him a “fascist” and a “deranged racist sociopath.”

Critics complain that defunding these outlets is silencing free speech. That’s nonsense. PBS and NPR can be as insane as they want—but I recommend they review CNN’s ratings before they do—they just can’t have taxpayer dollars to do it.

This rescissions package also targets over $8 billion in wasteful foreign aid programs, many of which have actively worked against the core interests of the United States and our foreign policy apparatus. Secretary Marco Rubio has highlighted this problem on several occasions, arguing that every dollar spent on foreign aid must align with American interests in a given country. 

Some of the most concerning programs targeted by the White House include radical climate change initiatives, like the World Bank’s “Clean Technology Fund.” The Trump administration is focused on unleashing American energy dominance, and funding organizations that embrace anti-fossil fuel Environmental, Social, and Governance—or ESG—policies directly contradicts that agenda. 

Each year, America ships over $50 billion to other countries, all while veterans are living on the streets, communities are without clean drinking water, and Americans are reeling from natural disasters like the recent floods in Triadelphia and Fairmont, West Virginia. We can’t afford to waste precious taxpayer resources on foreign aid programs like Iraqi Sesame Street, promoting LGBTQ global movements, helping transgender sex workers in Nepal, or offering vasectomies for men in Zambia. 

Americans rejected globalism at the ballot box last November, and this rescissions package delivers on the America First agenda we promised voters. While Democrats and the left-wing media have engaged in a coordinated campaign meant to sow fear—going so far as to say this package will literally kill people—nothing could be further from the truth.

These cuts are targeted directly at waste, fraud, and abuse. The American people can see it all for themselves and make their own determination of whether these programs merit taxpayer investment. 

I’m proud to be leading the Republican Study Committee’s Rescission Task Force here in the House, which serves as the tip of the spear for codifying the president’s DOGE cuts. Make no mistake, this package is just round one. It’s our duty to ensure that every taxpayer dollar is spent wisely, and the Senate needs to get on board ASAP.

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