Late Thursday, the Home of Representatives narrowly authorised a Trump-backed rescissions bundle that slashes almost $9 billion in prior-authorized funding.
Roughly $8 billion redirected or rescinded from applications as soon as overseen by USAID—now folded into the State Division—overlaying realms like catastrophe aid, world well being, and agriculture. $1.1 billion clawed again from the Company for Public Broadcasting, which funds over 1,500 NPR and PBS stations
The bundle, lengthy championed by Trump and a brand new wave of fiscal hawks within the GOP, reverses years of wasteful globalist spending that has funneled billions abroad whereas neglecting American households at house.
It additionally lastly takes purpose at far-left media shops like NPR and PBS, which have been overtly hostile to conservatives whereas cashing checks from U.S. taxpayers.
Regardless of public claims of “neutrality,” each NPR and PBS have more and more acted as mouthpieces for the novel left, pushing identification politics, local weather extremism, and woke ideology on the American public — all on the taxpayer’s dime.
The ultimate tally: 216–213, with two Republicans defecting. Home Speaker Mike Johnson celebrated the victory as “fiscal sanity,” whereas Democrats accused the transfer of eroding bipartisan fiscal hawkishness.
With Home approval, the invoice now heads to Trump’s desk for his long-awaited signature.
Inside hours, former President Trump took to Reality Social to tear into each 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!!!”
