House Set to Rescind Woke and Wasteful Spending

This week, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on the Rescissions Act of 2025 in response to a formal request submitted to Congress by President Donald Trump.

From 1974 to 2000, it was commonplace for the president to request rescissions of funding under the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. In fact, every president from Gerald Ford through Bill Clinton both made rescission requests to Congress and signed them into law.

Sadly, since the turn of the century, no president— Republican or Democrat— has made a formal rescissions request to Congress, with one exception: President Donald J. Trump. During his first term, President Trump requested $14.8 billion in rescissions from Congress, which unfortunately failed in the Senate by a 48-50 vote.

Now, President Trump has requested $9.4 billion in total rescissions of previously appropriated funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, U.S. Agency for International Development, and other foreign assistance programs. President Trump’s rescission proposal would not only save billions of dollars for taxpayers, but it would also eliminate woke and wasteful spending.

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought emphasized that the rescissions to various foreign aid programs are targeted and do not eliminate America’s foreign aid in its entirety. As noted by Vought, the proposed rescissions eliminate funding for woke programs abroad, programs that have failed in their execution to mitigate threats (such as containing Hezbollah), or programs that actively undermine the commander-in-chief’s vision for an America First foreign policy.

In this rescissions package, the White House is not requesting Congress to reconsider the appropriate overall funding level that is enacted for foreign aid; they are simply asking Congress to affirm that failed programs need accountability and American tax dollars should not be wasted on politically charged programs that undermine the president overseas.

In addition to proposed rescissions to foreign aid programs, President Trump has requested that Congress rescind $535 million, the full amount appropriated, to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. As argued by Vought, these funds are “used to subsidize a public media system that is politically biased and an unnecessary expense to the taxpayer.”

Earlier this year, a House Committee on Oversight hearing examining PBS and NPR bias exposed that NPR and PBS were wrong about COVID-19 origins, alleged Russian collusion, and the Hunter Biden laptop. Additionally, Chairman James Comer exposed how NPR attacked him while ignoring hundreds of pages of evidence collected by the committee of alleged Biden family impropriety, before Joe Biden pardoned his family during his final hours in office.

I do not believe that any of my colleagues think the funding targeted by these rescissions is more important than funding for Americans’ safety and security, education, health care, Social Security, or many other federally funded programs.

Yet, for 25 years, American presidents have sat on the sidelines when they could have requested rescissions from Congress to eliminate wasteful spending—every one of them, except President Trump.

I applaud the president for his continued commitment to combating woke and wasteful spending. I hope this will be the first of many rescissions proposals as Republicans in Congress continue to partner with the president to rightsize government and stop wasting American people’s hard-earned tax dollars.

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