Senate Passes $9 Billion Rescissions Bill, Including Cuts to NPR
Let’s cut some more!
The Senate passed the $9 billion rescissions bill, which scales back foreign aid and NPR funding.
That’s not enough. Slash MORE.
The bill heads back to the House, which has to pass it by Friday.
Republican Sens. Susan Collins (ME) and Lisa Murkowski (AK) voted against it, but Mitch McConnell (KY) voted for it, making the result 51-48.
BREAKING 🚨 At 2:30 AM, the Senate has passed Donald Trump’s First DOGE rescissions package
PBS, NPR and USAID will be bankrupted very soon
A HUGE WIN 🔥 pic.twitter.com/lg5CXSvfEt
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) July 17, 2025
From Fox News:
The $9 billion rescissions bill tees up cuts to “woke” spending on foreign aid programs and NPR and PBS that Congress previously approved. Republicans have pitched the bill as building on their quest to root out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said that it was a mission shared by the GOP and Trump, whose Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified many of the cuts included in the package.
“I appreciate all the work the administration has done in identifying wasteful spending,” Thune said. “And now it’s time for the Senate to do its part to cut some of that waste out of the budget. It’s a small but important step toward fiscal sanity that we all should be able to agree is long overdue.”
The president’s rescissions package proposed cutting just shy of $8 billion from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the government-backed funding arm for NPR and PBS.
Murkowski whined that the Senate should be legislating:
Before the vote, the Alaskan Senator added: “I haven’t been given the comfort, if you will, that we’re not impacting maternal and child health. That we’re not impacting HIV/AIDS, we’re not impacting nutrition programs and programs related to tuberculosis, malaria, polio, neglected tropic disease, pandemic prevention and family planning. I think we are entitled to have that level of detail when these funds that we have authorized, that we have appropriated to, are now being clawed back. I don’t think that’s too much to ask.”
The Senator concluded her pre-vote 5-minutes on the floor with a warning: “We’re lawmakers, we should be legislating. What we’re getting now is a direction from the White House and being told ‘this is the priority, we want you to execute on it, we’ll be back with you on another round.’ I don’t accept that.”
Guess what, lady. Those who voted for President Donald Trump voted to cut government spending.
Congress appropriates the spending. Lawmaking isn’t your only job. Cut the spending.
*I* don’t accept you guys spending my money the way you do.
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I’m glad – and surprised, frankly – that it passed and I don’t want to seem ungrateful. But, this cut represents a MEASLY .42% of our projected fiscal year deficit, an eyewatering $1.9T (could be a hair less because of tariff revenue).
Hear, hear,
If they were really faithful to their Article VI oath, fedgov would be no more than 5% of today’s beast. It really is hard for me to believe that the Constitution was meant to LIMIT the size of what it was creating.
Finally. The tired old arguments about ‘its for the Children or programs to fight X disease, Y malady or amorphous goals about education, nutrition, reproductive health’ are no longer effective. Not with me and probably not for a majority of taxpaying voters.
If Sen Murkowski believes these programs are so essential then she can pony up her own wealth. Set-up a give send go, crowd fund it, get the EU to hand over the financing. If individual US taxpayers want to support these things they can do so voluntarily, no one is stopping them.
We understand those claims are a pretext. A premise to mask the actions that cannot tolerate sunlight.
“Before the vote, the Alaskan Senator added: “I haven’t been given the comfort, if you will, that we’re not impacting maternal and child health. That we’re not impacting HIV/AIDS, we’re not impacting nutrition programs and programs related to tuberculosis, malaria, polio, neglected tropic disease, pandemic prevention and family planning.’
NONE OF WHICH are constitutionally delegated powers!
I’m sorry, but these are stereotypical women’s legislative issues, which have no place in Congress.
I dont listen to NPR very often – but three examples of heavy wokeness
A- during first trump administration, a week long expose of the improper use of investigating a political opponent (biden family ukraine corruption), but nary a word on the biden family corruption
B – The day after the Kyle Rittenhouse trail, forrmer judge commenting on the all the judge’s rulings in favor of the defense, but nary a word on the prosecution misconduct.
C – last week in march 2020 – A week long expose on the impossibility of a covid lab leak
Yet, NPR is rated as one of the most fairly balanced of the media
Dems hate this because most of the funding cuts were basically slush funds for leftists
Cut the spending…
BRZZZ. BRZZZ. Chainsaw. Axe. Slash n burn all of it. That includes earmarks; pork bills for a local project that will only benefit local contituents, so a local politician can crow during election season, “I’m HeLpiNg.”
There’s is no reason for tax payers across the nation to fund local stuff in other states that will never benefit them.
BRZZZ. BRZZZ. Chainsaw. Axe. Slash n burn all of it.
Okay, you’ve taken one step – where’s the rest of the two trillion in cuts we need?
Actually, I’m 100% in favor of Congress doing nothing BUT cutting spending and doing no “legislating” at all.
We can’t possibly need more laws at this point, which is the problem when a bunch of lawyers think their job is to make new ones all the time.
We won’t get real freedom in this country until Congress begins the repealing of 000s of statutes.
When the Founders/Framers spoke of freedom, they meant freedom FROM excessive government.
Your # needs a leading 1 and more zeros
$9 billion is chump change in the context of federal spending, so, this is more a symbolic step than anything substantive. More of this, please.
Okay, shameful that it was such a narrow margin. But, now it’s time to queue up more. Lots more
These two rescission items; ending support for NPR/PBS and ‘foreign aid boondoggles’ have been pushed for decades by libertarian minded folks and many mainstream conservatives. I wouldn’t get my hopes up for the kinds of dramatic cuts in current spending needed to get to a balanced budget and begin paying down our $37 Trillion national debt. The kicking the can down the road is great until we come to the end of the road and have to actually deal with the problems in the can. Problems that only become larger and more difficult to solve every moment we choose to delay any serious effort to address them.
When you’re paying an obscene ~$1 trillion in annual interest on your indebtedness, you need to institute serious spending cuts and implement robust debt pay-down, in order to make progress towards restoring your balance sheet to fiscal health.
Note how none of the vile Dhimmi-crat apparatchiks are talking about how their fiscal profligacy and negligence have caused the U.S. to piss away $1 trillion every year solely on national debt interest payments. Literally throwing money away.
eulogy for big bird
go choke on bird seed
Some may say it isn’t much in the overall budget but I say $9 billion here and $9 billion there and pretty soon you are talking about real money.
How does Big Bird feed children? well, maybe once . . .
PBS/NPR have nothing to fear, Qatar is here to make your budget fantasies a reality! Just repeat this simple script: “Death to Israel! Death to America!”
So change nothing?
PBS will be fine. They have valuable intellectual properties they have made boat loads of money off of. Not sure NPR will but does it matter? Podcasts can replace them easily.
As for the rest why is the government involved in all that. Are they good causes? In many case yes. However we aren’t supposed to be a nanny state despite what the dramacrats might want.
Weak cut bill….not even close here but at least it’s an easy pass. Now do some more.
It’s a tiny cut, really.