Posted on 07/19/2025 4:12:40 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion in funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid early Friday.
The vote marked the first time in decades that a president has successfully submitted such a rescissions request to Congress, and the White House suggested it won't be the last. Some Republicans who indicated they were uncomfortable with the cuts,yet supported them anyway.
“The money that we're clawing back in this rescissions package is the people's money. We ought not to forget that,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chair of the House Rules Committee. The House passed the bill by a vote of 216-213.
“We need to get back to fiscal sanity and this is an important step,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
No Democrats supported the measure when it passed the Senate, 51-48, in the early morning hours Thursday. Final passage in the House was delayed for several hours as Republicans wrestled with their response to Democrats' push for a vote on the release of Jeffrey Epstein files.
The package cancels about $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and nearly $8 billion for a variety of foreign aid programs, many designed to help countries where drought, disease and political unrest endure.
The effort to claw back a sliver of federal spending came just weeks after Republicans also muscled through Trump’s tax and spending cut bill without any Democrat support. The Congressional Budget Office has projected that measure will increase the U.S. debt by about $3.3 trillion over the coming decade.
The cancellation of $1.1 billion for the CPB represents the full amount it is due to receive during the next two budget years.
The White House says the public media system is politically biased and an unnecessary expense.
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that might require a sense of shame which those Marxist scumbags clearly don’t have
Should have been $900 billion. Cowards.
Niiiiice. Will be interesting to see how NPR responds.
Big Mike’s!
Should have been $900 billion. Cowards.You can show your bravery and how easy it is when you get elected...Otherwise...
Cool! But they insist only a small portion of their funding is from federal funds, sooo, but course they are lying.
It has to be done incrementally. There is no choice. This is just the first step. At least this first package eliminated federal funding for PGS and NPR, something we thought we would never see in our lifetimes. Much more to come.
Massie exposes foreign aid in DOD appropriations bill: “A misappropriation of military funds”
X ^ | July 18 | Thomas Massie / Posted on 7/18/2025, 10:32:27 AM by RandFan
Foreign aid in DOD appropriations bill:
$300 mil Syria & Iraq military
$118 mil overseas disasters
$15 mil AIDS in Africa
$500 mil Israel
$350 mil Kuwait
$1.27 billion foreign security
$500 mil Taiwan
$500 mil Jordan
$267 mil reimburse countries
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“Should have been $900 billion. Cowards.”
Why don’t you run for office so you can show us how easy it is.
Jerk.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is right-——why are we borrowing billions
just so taxpayers can dole out “foreign aid” to wealthy countries?
US foreign aid tax dollars finance wealthy Israel’s “defense
budget”...................among other US billions lying around.
Even as nuclear manufacturer Israel has universal healthcare and
subsidizes college and other freebies for their citizens.
Israel’s nuclear program is believed to have started in the 1960s,
with the construction of a nuclear research reactor at Dimona.
Israel’s “stated” policy of not being the first to “introduce” nuclear weapons is a deliberate strategy to maintain a nuclear deterrent without explicitly acknowledging its arsenal, according to the New York Times.
The term “introduce” has been interpreted by obfuscating “Israeli-talk” to mean not testing or publicly acknowledging possession, according to historical documents from the Office of the Historian.
In the late 1960s, during negotiations for the sale of Phantom aircraft, Israel committed to not being the first to “introduce” nuclear weapons into the Middle East.
Despite widespread belief and evidence suggesting otherwise, Israel has never officially admitted to possessing nuclear weapons.
Israel is believed to have nuclear weapons delivery systems, including F-16 and F-15 fighter jets, as well as Jericho ballistic missiles.
This policy of ambiguity allows Israel to deter potential adversaries without facing the international consequences of
Void Biden’s infrastructure bill for a start. Next gut Obama’s trillion $ adds.
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