This just in: the House of Representatives has just passed the first round of DOGE spending cuts!
Originally proposed by President Trump himself, the rescissions package includes over $9.4 billion in spending cuts from USAID, PBS, and NPR!
It’s now headed to the Senate.
BREAKING: The House passes first round of DOGE cuts, 214-212, slashing around $9.4B from USAID, NPR, PBS, and more.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 12, 2025
The House Oversight Committee announced:
NPR and PBS = DEFUNDED
The House just passed President Trump’s rescissions package, enacting @DOGE cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Tax dollars will NOT go towards indoctrinating children with radical leftist ideology.@SenateGOP, it’s your turn to act. pic.twitter.com/I5ZsceeQ55
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 12, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson released this statement in response to the passage:
Today’s House passage of this initial rescissions package marks a critical step toward a more responsible and transparent government that puts the interests of the American taxpayers first.
Thanks to DOGE’s work, this package eliminates $9.4 billion in unnecessary and wasteful… pic.twitter.com/kmnwzYI2qd— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) June 12, 2025
The Hill has more details on the package:
Trump is seeking to claw back $8.3 billion in foreign aid as part of the request, targeting dollars for items like migration and refugee assistance that the administration says support activities that “could be more fairly shared with non-U.S. Government donors,” USAID efforts they say have been used to “fund radical gender and climate projects,” and development assistance they argued “conflict with American values” and “interfere with the sovereignty of other countries,” among other rescissions.
The administration also calls for eliminating funding for the United Nations Children’s Fund, U.N. Development Program and the U.N. Population Fund under the proposal, as well as the World Health Organization and “portions of the U.N. Regular Budget for the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.”
The plan additionally calls for rescinding $535 million in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides some funding to NPR and PBS, in both fiscal 2026 and 2027.
The proposed $1.1 billion clawback for public broadcasting funds has sparked concern from Republicans in both chambers, who have sounded alarm over what the cuts would mean for local stations and those in rural communities.
The package passed narrowly in the House, with four Republicans siding with Democrats against it.
Very surprisingly, Rep. Thomas Massie was not among those four RINOs.
Yesterday, we brought you this report about how Rep. Massie was the only Republican to vote against the measure to advance these DOGE cuts:
House ADVANCES First Round of DOGE Cuts — Lone Republican Sides With Dems To Vote “No”
Perhaps the backlash Massie received knocked some sense into him because he ended up changing his mind and voting to pass the cuts.
However, these four Republicans voted 'no' on the bill:
MTG called them out:
DOGE CUTS PASSED!!
Two R’s switched
Here are the Republican NO votes to cutting USAID, NPR, and PBS!!
Unreal. https://t.co/2ikBTr4SZQ pic.twitter.com/6PY3bphkVD
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 12, 2025
Two Republicans also didn't vote at all:
Six RINOs have just been exposed. You know what to do in 2026: primary them and vote them out!
Still, the package's passage is wonderful news.
The House has passed the first of many DOGE cuts! Now, let's hope it does well in the Senate...
Uniquely, since the cuts are part of a rescissions package rather than a typical bill, it only needs to get 51 votes instead of the usual 60 to pass in the Senate.
Still, Senate RINOs are already planning to stop it in its tracks.
CNN noted:
The request will now go to the Senate, where just 51 Republicans need to agree — instead of the usual 60 votes needed to end debate.
But multiple GOP senators, including Sen. Susan Collins, who leads the Senate Appropriations panel, have raised concerns about the cuts. Collins told CNN this week she is trying to make changes to the measure.
ADVERTISEMENT“I think we can change it. We’re still figuring out what the set rules are,” Collins said.
PBS and NPR — two networks that stand to lose federal dollars from the House-passed bill — said they are now setting their hopes on the Senate.
Both public media networks said in statements that they will lobby senators to reject the spending cut proposal promoted by President Trump, which cuts $1.1 billion in future funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
“The fight to protect public media does not end with this vote, and we will continue to make the case for our essential service in the days and weeks to come,” PBS CEO Paula Kerger said.
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