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Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4) to rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President on June 3, 2025, in accordance with section 1012(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, and for other purposes.
House floor actionsThe House Committee on Rules reported an original measure, H. Rept. 119-152, by Ms. Foxx.
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I rise in support of the rule and of the underlying legislation. Yesterday, the Rules Committee met and produced a rule, House Resolution 499, providing for the House's consideration of H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025.
To each one of these I list, Mr. Speaker, you should ask: If you vote ``yes,'' you are finally relieving that debt burden, but if you vote ``no,'' you think it is okay to send this bill to our kids. We are not paying for it today, Mr. Speaker, but our kids would if we keep doing it.
Let's address the One Big Beautiful Bill Act issue. My friends on the other side of the aisle are raising the prospect of $3 trillion of additional deficits.
I rise today in strong support of H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025, a bill that finally codifies the spending cuts identified by the Department of Government Efficiency, otherwise known as DOGE.
We want to end programs like LGBTQI in the Caribbean, the Balkans, and Uganda, and all the dollars that we put into trying to support those programs that are waste, fraud, and abuse. Our American tax dollars should not be spent in that way.
I commend this legislation because as the national debt climbs toward $37 trillion, U.S. taxpayers deserve a government that serves them, not radical policies abroad or at home.
This bill represents a tiny fraction of the total we are spending annually. It is a tiny fraction, 0.2 percent, one-fifth of a percent of what President Biden added to the debt over the last 4 years. Yet, Democrats are saying that these savings are cruel. They literally said this will destroy America as we know it.
This bill slashes radical foreign aid at the State Department, USAID, and the U.S. Institute of Peace for woke gender ideology and equity nonsense that mocks American values. Why are we bankrolling wokeism abroad when ranchers and small business owners in my district are struggling?
The Rescissions Act of 2025 is not just a bill. It is a part of a much larger course correction. This bill rips back over $9 billion from the clutches of globalist NGOs, projects that fund radical gender ideology, and the green new scam.
I rise today to urge my colleagues to defund NPR, PBS, and USAID. For decades, Republicans have campaigned on being fiscal conservatives, but all we have to show for it is a national debt skyrocketing toward $37 trillion.
Under President Donald Trump's leadership, this rescissions package codifies $9.4 billion in DOGE cuts by canceling some of the most egregious Biden-era waste, fraud, and abuse.
I have consistently voted to cut the spigot of spending, and I will continue that record by voting to pass this bill today. I urge my colleagues to do the same.
I am opposed to this bill to aid and abet billionaires in stealing from the American people and which does nothing to help the American people with the cost of living.
Republicans have decided that, in the face of this affordability crisis in the United States of America, the majority is going to undermine America's ability to protect our national security through the exercise of soft power and addressing in a bipartisan way the HIV and AIDS epidemic, a program that was first put into place by President George W.
I rise today in fierce opposition to the Republicans' reckless rescission bill, a backdoor scheme to claw back critical Federal funding that protects America's global leadership, public safeguards, and trusted public broadcasting, all while bypassing congressional constitutional authority.
This rescissions package isn't about fiscal responsibility. It is about abandoning America's legacy of compassion, ceding global leadership, and turning our back on the most vulnerable.
To every Republican listening, this is yet another chance to oppose Donald Trump's attack on any objective form of accountability and to do what is best for your constituents.
Sunday is Father's Day, and what do dads want? They want a fair shot. They want to know that if they work hard, they can provide for their families. Yet, right now, most families in America can't even afford the basics.
I rise today in strong opposition to this reckless attack on public media contained within this rescission bill and the millions of Americans who rely on and treasure their local public television and radio stations.
The GOP is canceling $9.4 billion, yes, billion, in funding for programs that fund lifesaving work across the world. It is funding for public television and public radio, for agriculture and research jobs, in my own district, and to codify the DOGE cuts that two-thirds of Americans oppose.
When you cut PEPFAR, which is the signature program that President George W. Bush created to eradicate the AIDS epidemic, people will die. OMB Director Russ Vought confirmed that the bill cuts PEPFAR by $400 million.
I rise in strong opposition to this package. It is embarrassing. It is trifling. This is a funding package that Republicans actually agreed to and voted on last Congress when they were in the majority. Republicans must be missing Biden now because they actually had more influence under him than under Trump.
There will be people who will die. This bill is good for Russia and China and undertakers because it is going to have people dying. Bill Gates said this is the richest man in the world, Musk, taking advantage of and killing the poorest children in the world.
Last month Secretary Rubio responded to me and said no one had died as a result of the gutting of USAID, but Boston University School of Public Health shows us that 300,000 people have died already because they were cut off from food and medicine for tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria.
Where lies are king, the truth is the enemy. Institutions that spread knowledge are defamed as ``enemies of the people.'' NPR and PBS are targeted here today precisely because they are so good at delivering the truth. Like millions, I tune into both of them daily.
I was necessarily absent and missed the following votes on the House Floor. Had I been present, I would have voted accordingly: NO on Roll Call No. 164, Motion on Ordering the Previous Question on H. Res. 499; and NO on Roll Call No. 165, H. Res. 499.
Due to family matters, I was unable to vote today on H. Res. 499. Had I been present, I would have voted NO on Roll Call No. 164 and NO on Roll Call No. 165.
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