KEY VOTE: “YES” on H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025

Americans for Tax Reform encourages all members of Congress to vote “YES” on H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025, introduced by Majority Leader Steve Scalise.

Under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA), the Trump Administration sent a rescissions package – a request to rescind appropriated funds – to Congress.

This package includes $9.4 billion in spending cuts identified initially by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This includes a rescission of $8.3 billion in wasteful foreign aid spending and $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (NPR and PBS).

This bill is likely the first of many rescissions packages we can look forward to — especially if this one is passed swiftly. When browsing through the programs and initiatives this bill scraps, one can only be appalled by the government’s contemptible use of precious taxpayer dollars. 

These spending items include, but are certainly not limited to:

• Iraqi Sesame Street ($3 million)
• Teaching kids about “environmentally friendly” reproductive health ($2.5 million)
• NPR’s defense of looting and cannibalism, genderqueer dinosaur profiles, and more
• Electric buses in Rwanda ($500,000)
• Nepali trans people, sex workers, and their clients ($833,000)
• LGBTQI+ programs in Uganda and the western Balkans ($1.2 million)
• Promoting voter ID in Haiti ($1 million)
• Promoting vegan food in Zambia ($8,000)
• Strengthening “queer global movements” ($5.1 million)
• Left-wing news coverage ($500 million)

Taxpayers’ hard-earned tax dollars should not be wasted on programs like these. Not only is this kind of spending outside of the federal government’s purview, but much of it is actively harmful.

We urge all members to support this important step towards limiting wasteful, woke government spending.