Posted on 05/28/2025 10:31:57 AM PDT by RandFan
The Trump administration will send Congress a package to claw back $9.4 billion in funding next week, an Office of Management and Budget spokesperson confirmed to The Hill, as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) pledges to “act quickly” on codifying cuts spearheaded by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The package will in part target the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS, and USAID, which was largely dismantled by the administration earlier this year.
Plans for the roughly $9 billion recissions package were forecasted weeks ago and originally projected to be transmitted from the White House by the end of April. But that was delayed as the House completed crafting the “One Big Beautiful Bill” of Trump priorities on tax cuts and defense and border spending.
Axios first reported that the $9.4 billion recissions package would be sent to Capitol Hill next week.
It comes as Congress has faced the ire of right-wing activists and billionaire Elon Musk over lack of action codifying DOGE activities. Musk told CBS Sunday Morning in a clip released Tuesday night that he was “disappointed” by the GOP megabill that the House passed and sent to the Senate last week, saying that it “undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.”
Johnson on Wednesday posted high praise of DOGE while signaling the House will bring the White House recissions package to the floor quickly.
Last time I heard, we were running a two trillion dollar deficit!
Get back to me when they add two zeros to that number.
Why is it only 9.4. Should be at least 94 billion.
I’d say you got to start somewhere
How much DOGE cuts will they turn into Pork ?
Actually should be $940B, but yes, $94B is at least a better start.
It’s a step in the right direction.
:thumbsup:
All DOGE savings are being sucked back into Fedgov. The unfunded liabilities, deficit and debt with the typical insane deficit spending is destroying the country. The GOP has no interest in codifying the EOs.
I see it like this: Claw back $9.4 Billion current. Save another $9.4 Billion the next year, and the next and so on...
I also count as a DOGE effort the reduction in the federal workforce, culling make-work jobs, - likewise saving now and continuing to save in the future.
Exactly. These are not serious cuts.
Gee, you and rand just told me they could not do this because ... TRUMP!
Looks like you and rand had no clue what you were talking again.
“Why is it only 9.4.”
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The ship is sinking from the increasing weight of taking on water and they want to use cups instead of buckets to take it out.
$9.4B is just a token cut. The big spenders are what they are.
Rand said this had to happen the other day i.e president has to send the bill to THEM
Your bile and vitriol is misplaced as usual
Generally, Congress priorities are:
1) Fund-raise to get re-elected
2) Legislation taking care of their big donors
3) Insider trading, etc, nest feathering
4) Back bring-home-the-bacon bills
5) *Say* they are for cutting spending
Congress sees their mission is to spend, not save
won’t get through Senate and they know it! Has to be part of BBB!
It’s nothing with regard to the deficit, but a lot of this is democrat NGO and corruption funding.
This is probably where most of Kamala’s $2 billion came from.
Between cutting off their funding, exporting their voters (illegals), and cleaning up voter roles/fraud, this stands to cripple the democrat party.
Of course that begs the question of whether republicans are any better. At least they aren’t quite so insane.
Their ‘solution’ to every problem (real or perceived) is to throw money at it. And then when it doesn’t work, throw more money at it.
The more money they spend the more opportunities there are for graft and kickbacks. So, there’s no incentives for them to make cuts.
“Has to be part of BBB!”
For the hundredth time, it is a reconciliation bill.
Not allowed.
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