For Immediate Release
June 3, 2025
Contact: Athina Lawson
WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson released the following statement to confirm the House received the Trump Administration’s rescissions request to cut $9.4 billion in wasteful spending identified by DOGE.
“House Republicans will continue delivering on our mandate from the American people: to restore efficiency and accountability to the federal government. Today, we have officially received the rescissions request from the White House to eliminate $9.4 billion in wasteful foreign aid spending at State and USAID and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS. The House will act quickly on this request.
“Under President Trump, every federal taxpayer dollar is actually being used to serve the American people, not to fund a bloated bureaucracy or purely partisan pet projects. We thank Elon Musk and his DOGE team for identifying a wide range of wasteful, duplicative, and outdated programs, and House Republicans are eager to eliminate them.
“This rescissions package reflects many of DOGE’s findings and is one of the many legislative tools Republicans are using to restore fiscal sanity. Congress will continue working closely with the White House to codify these recommendations, and the House will bring the package to the floor as quickly as possible.
“Democrats continue to wail and complain – NOT at the fraud, waste, and abuse – but at the Trump Administration simply for exposing it. In fact, Democrats are the only ones in Washington who do not want to stop the egregious misspending of the people’s tax dollars. Democrats continue to defend corruption, while Republicans are delivering real accountability and real savings the American people demanded in November.”
Background:
- The Trump Administration has assembled a package that totals $9.4 billion in wasteful or unnecessary spending identified by DOGE.
- This package will codify DOGE cuts which include $8.3 billion in wasteful foreign aid spending and a $1.1 billion recission of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which provides funds to NPR and PBS.
Process:
- Under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA), the Administration may transmit a request to Congress to rescind previously appropriated funds through a rescissions package. Such a package only requires a simple majority vote in the Senate to be enacted.
- Transmittal of a package triggers a 45-day clock, during which funds in accounts included in the rescissions package are withheld from obligation pending congressional action.
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