$9 Billion Rescission Bill Heads To Trump’s Desk

It’s amazing how much caterwauling this minor cut, at least in terms of the federal budget, is causing among Democrats and a few squishy Republicans

Congress sends bill clawing back $9B in foreign aid, public media funds to Trump’s desk

House Republicans late Thursday night approved the first batch of cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), sending the $9 billion package to President Trump’s desk in a big victory for the GOP.

The legislation — which claws back already-approved federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting — cleared the chamber in a mostly party-line 216-213 vote less than one day after the Senate passed the measure.

Two Republicans, Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) and Mike Turner (Ohio), voted with every Democrat against the measure.

Trump is expected to sign the bill soon, as Republicans face a Friday deadline to enact the cuts or release the funds to the organizations they were appropriated for.

Would it be too much to ask for Republicans to go through the federal budget with the legendary fine toothed comb and eliminate everything that is unnecessary, that is not part of what Congress is supposed to do per the Constitution? To audit every agency and cut the fraud, waste, and abuse? That would be some real cuts.

“We’re gonna downsize the scope of government,” Mike Johnson said. “Government is too large, it does too many things and it does almost nothing well. We believe in a limited government that’s accountable and efficient and effective for the people and we’re gonna continue to demonstrate that through our actions here on the floor.”

$9 billion isn’t much, but, hopefully a start. We’ll see.

Some Republicans have also warned the president’s use of the rare tool to secure cuts to funding previously approved by Congress risks further eroding trust between both parties as lawmakers ramp up their annual funding work.

“Some”. Why do we care? Democrats do not care about bipartisanship. We all remember Obamacare, right?

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) earlier this month said passage of the rescissions package “would be an affront to the bipartisan appropriations process.”

“That’s why a number of Senate Republicans know it is absurd for them to expect Democrats to act as business as usual and engage in a bipartisan appropriations process to fund the government, while they concurrently plot to pass a purely partisan rescissions bill to defund those same programs negotiated on a bipartisan basis behind the scenes,” he continued, later adding: “This is beyond a bait and switch – it is a bait and poison-to-kill.”

Cry me a river. These little things are never negotiated, they’re just included and no one thinks about them. No one has been making a stunk in arguing over the small stuff. Suck it up, Dems.

Rep. Roy: “When the floods were hitting the people that I represent, it took NPR through Texas Public Radio 19 hours to post anything about the flooding on its social media.

What was NPR and TPR doing in the interim? They were playing a program, a DC based program, lobbying… pic.twitter.com/IyZYPFq5SS

— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) July 17, 2025

Certainly NPR can make up that 1% of budget that the rescission package eliminates so they can yammer about liberal stuff, right?

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