Late Thursday, the House of Representatives narrowly approved a Trump-backed rescissions package that slashes nearly $9 billion in prior-authorized funding.
Roughly $8 billion redirected or rescinded from programs once overseen by USAID—now folded into the State Department—covering realms like disaster relief, global health, and agriculture. $1.1 billion clawed back from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds over 1,500 NPR and PBS stations
The package, long championed by Trump and a new wave of fiscal hawks in the GOP, reverses years of wasteful globalist spending that has funneled billions overseas while neglecting American families at home.
It also finally takes aim at far-left media outlets like NPR and PBS, which have been openly hostile to conservatives while cashing checks from U.S. taxpayers.
Despite public claims of “neutrality,” both NPR and PBS have increasingly acted as mouthpieces for the radical left, pushing identity politics, climate extremism, and woke ideology on the American public — all on the taxpayer’s dime.
The final tally: 216–213, with two Republicans defecting. House Speaker Mike Johnson celebrated the victory as “fiscal sanity,” while Democrats accused the move of eroding bipartisan fiscal hawkishness.
With House approval, the bill now heads to Trump’s desk for his long-awaited signature.
Within hours, former President Trump took to Truth Social to rip into both the left and the press.
“HOUSE APPROVES NINE BILLION DOLLAR CUTS PACKAGE, INCLUDING ATROCIOUS NPR AND PUBLIC BROADCASTING, WHERE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR WERE WASTED. REPUBLICANS HAVE TRIED DOING THIS FOR 40 YEARS, AND FAILED….BUT NO MORE. THIS IS BIG!!!”
