Posted on 07/17/2025 9:40:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s finally passed and heading for President Trump's desk for signature. The recissions package has made it over the finish line in a 216-213 vote in the House. It had to be bounced back from the Senate, which passed it on a 51-48 vote, as the upper chamber had made slight adjustments to it during the vote-a-rama process. The GOP has slim majorities in Congress, but they’re getting the Trump agenda through.
216-213:House approved the Trump WH's 1st round of DOGE spending cuts, $9B in foreign aid & public broadcasting from previously approved funding by Congress. Republicans Fitzpatrick (PA) & Turner (OH) voted No. Senate passed the recissions package 51-48; Now heads to Pres. Trump. https://t.co/zYxRL20jVZ pic.twitter.com/2ZrH6AFpgB— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) July 18, 2025
It’s not easy, the infighting is annoying, and Republicans who’d rather get attention than work to get Trump’s bills through are peak irritation. Before this vote, House Republicans bungled a bill providing regulations on cryptocurrency. That wasted 36 hours of appropriation time, and that’s with this rescissions package in the backdrop —a slate of cuts totaling around $9 billion that had to be passed by July 18.
🚨 BREAKING
The rescission package is heading to President Trump’s desk, defunding NPR, PBS, and USAID.
U.S. House passes the package on a 216-213 vote, with two Republicans, Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Mike Turner, voting no.— Townhall.com (@townhallcom)
And yes, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) had to whine and delay the inevitable. It was no eight-plus hour magic minute show which occurred before the reconciliation package was sent to President Trump’s desk, but it once again shows that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD) know how to keep things together. It’s not perfect, but we got tax cuts, illegals kicked off Medicaid, the southern border secured, and now $9 billion in cuts secured. It’s a start for something more significant down the road.
Vote #2. Vote on the rule for rescissions. But it does a lot.
- The rule PASSES the bill. It is self-deeming.
- Here is that text.https://rules.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/rules.house.gov/files/documents/bills-119hres_hr4sa_xml.pdf
https://t.co/uVb0gLBxwr— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) July 18, 2025
NOW: Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries giving his speech.
In theory, he could attempt to speak for 24 hours+ and block the House from meeting the Friday deadline on rescissions.
That has never happened before.
And he is at the center podium, not signalling a long speech.— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) July 18, 2025
In this speech, Jeffries seems a bit more focused on the fight for 2026, more than the votes now in 2025.
Which is where many Dems are in DC.— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) July 18, 2025
Another reconciliation package and recissions package are in the works, which is why Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) voted against it. We’ll deal with the usual suspects again, but for now, recessions are through.
spotted at the US capitol ahead of the midnight rescissions vote
pic.twitter.com/lTwiB6qzD4— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) July 18, 2025
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Sheeesh, ONLY a mere $9 billion out of a $6 trillion budget and 213 of them ( including some Republicans ) can’t even muster the courage to vote for it!
good news. it’s a start. now do more.
Usual suspects.
It’s against their religion.
No government funded propaganda? People are going to die!
Oen would think Elon Musk would tweet out a little “thank you” to Trump and the GOP for putting his DOGE cuts into law. But no, that juvenile ass clown can’t stop posting puerile attacks on Trump regarding Epstein.
9 billion in “cuts” and the democrats will still squeal like it is the end of the world.
Wow! This is biggly. NPR and PBS are finally going to be defunded! So many billions of our taxpayer money that funded this leftwing crap outfit spewing commie propaganda. Finally!!!
Recissions, not resessions?
Hey ... that’s almost a whole 0.001% of the budget!
“One would think Elon Musk would tweet out a little “thank you” to Trump and the GOP for putting his DOGE cuts into law.”
You must be joking. They resisted him at every turn. The GOPe story is that he only found 9 billion. He found orders of magnitude more than that. Calling this the DOGE bill is a straight up insult.
A keg of beer?
😁
You said it exactly. Musk is precocious and painfully naive in many respects.
9 Bil is not a lot in the great scheme of things. I’d be happy with the rounding on those accounts however
Congress sends bill clawing back $9B in foreign aid, public media funds to Trump’s desk
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5407804-doge-cuts-public-broadcasting-foreign-aid/
And we need to somehow get rid of the damned ALWAYS VOTES WITH THE DEMS RINOS! But at least it has been passed.
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