‘BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR WERE WASTED. REPUBLICANS HAVE TRIED DOING THIS FOR 40 YEARS, AND FAILED….BUT NO MORE. THIS IS BIG!!!’
By Bob Unruh
The U.S. House has passed President Donald Trump’s $9 billion rescissions bill, sending it to his desk, and he immediately praised the action
“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!!!” he posted on Truth Social.
The plan pulls back money, about $8 billion, from previously approved handouts to foreign interests, and another $1 billion or so from Public Broadcasting System and National Public Radio, which he has condemned often as tax-funded mouthpieces for leftist agendas.
The $8 billion had been for foreign disaster relief, health projects and agriculture, while the $1 billion was to be used for 1,500 NPR and PBS stations.
Commentaries said the plan “reverses years of wasteful globalist spending that has funneled billions overseas while neglecting American families at home.”
The final vote was 216-213 on the plan that earlier was adopted by the House, then sent to the Senate where there were minor revisions before it was adopted there.
The bill now heads to the president’s desk for his signature.
The Daily Caller News Foundation described the move as “a significant victory for Trump who was the first commander-in-chief to have a clawback funding request approved by Congress in more than 25 years.”
The vote delivers on the president’s promise to close down the United States Agency for International Development and defund NPR and PBS, which Republicans have long accused of being biased against conservative viewpoints.
USAID now essentially is closed, with a handful of selected responsibilities being assigned to the State Department. Its employees largely are gone from the government.
The $1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which partially finances NPR and PBS, was for the next two years.
“I’m not sure how NPR helps the public safety of our country, but I do know that NPR unfortunately has become, really just a propaganda voice for the left,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.
The plan becomes the first of what is expected to become a stream of legislative moves to codify cuts identified by Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported, “There is still roughly $164 billion in federal spending pinpointed by Trump’s cost-cutting department as wasteful that Congress has yet to claw back.”
Speaker Mike Johnson noted taxpayers now no longer are being forced to pay for “politically biased media” and “outrageous” expenses overseas
Russ Vought, White House Office of Management and Budget director, earlier said the administration will be sending Congress more plans to claw back more funds.
Democrats have been united in their opposition to cutting even 0.1% of the federal governments $7 trillion spending.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., documented the bias found at NPR as only he can:
She claims that NPR is “a nonpartisan organization.”
So why did a former NPR editor find that their $201M D.C. newsroom had 87 Democrats in editorial positions and ZERO Republicans? pic.twitter.com/iy90oA0s2s
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) July 17, 2025
(2/5) NPR reported that country music and birds are racist, told American people to stop eating beef, and promoted the Russia-gate conspiracy.
No person with a brain above a single-celled organism would call these articles fair and balanced. pic.twitter.com/vpCl2Y74TI
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) July 16, 2025
Just a day before the Senate adopted the recissions package on a 51-48 vote following a 13-hour vote-a-rama.
