Freedom Caucus demands ‘swift passage’ of White House rescissions – Washington Examiner
The House Freedom Caucus is urging swift passage of a $9.4 billion rescissions package proposed by the White House, which involves important spending cuts, notably to the Corporation for Public broadcasting and foreign aid agencies. The caucus insists that the House should expedite the process and bring the proposal to the floor immediately for a vote, emphasizing the necessity to enact these financial reductions quickly. Despite pushback from some members of the GOP and the complications associated with the reconciliation process, Speaker Mike Johnson expressed the intent to act on the rescissions package as soon as it is received. The legislation’s specifics include a $1.1 billion cut to the Corporation for Public broadcasting and $8.3 billion in reductions to international aid programs, but it falls short of more extensive cuts previously suggested. The situation could create challenges for GOP leadership as they navigate intra-party dynamics on this contentious issue.
Freedom Caucus demands passage of $9.4 billion rescissions package ‘immediately’
The House Freedom Caucus is calling on leadership to pass the White House‘s $9.4 billion rescissions bill “immediately,” the fiscal conservative group’s latest demand to codify Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency cuts.
The Freedom Caucus said upon receiving the proposal, which calls for major cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and foreign aid agencies, the House should “immediately move this to the floor for swift passage.”
“While the Swamp will inevitably attempt to slow and kill these cuts, there is no excuse for a Republican House not to advance the first DOGE rescissions package the same week it is presented to Congress then quickly send it for passage in the Republican Senate so President Trump can sign it into law,” the caucus said Monday.
Fiscal hawks have been vocal about codifying the cuts proposed by Musk, who has since stepped away from serving in an adviser capacity to President Donald Trump.
Musk ruffled feathers when he said he was “disappointed” by the GOP’s “one big, beautiful” reconciliation bill, adding he thinks it “undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.”
The White House has pointed out that DOGE’s proposed cuts are to discretionary spending, which cannot be passed through the reconciliation process, according to Senate budget rules. Instead, the cuts must be codified through either the normal appropriations process or through the passage of a separate rescissions bill.
The administration is expected to send the rescissions bill to the House on Tuesday, meaning the Freedom Caucus will be demanding a vote sometime this week. This would add a major item to an otherwise light House docket this week, which could put GOP leadership in a bind as it works to try and get their conference on board with voting for a rescissions legislation.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) can only afford to lose three votes on legislation to pass it along party lines. It is unclear whether centrist Republicans would offer any pushback on the legislation, though many have expressed concern over DOGE’s slashes to federal aid programs such as the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Johnson said in a post last week that House Republicans would “move quickly” to pass legislation to codify the DOGE cuts once the bill arrives.
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“The House is eager and ready to act on DOGE’s findings so we can deliver even more cuts to big government that President Trump wants and the American people demand,” Johnson said.
The legislation calls for $1.1 billion in cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which runs PBS and NPR. It also calls for $8.3 billion in cuts to USAID and the African Development Foundation. But it ultimately falls short of the hundreds of billions in cuts proposed by DOGE since January.
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