House considers Trump cuts as Senate Republicans work on reconciliation bill

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Source: Roll Call

Posted June 9, 2025 at 6:30am


As Senate committees continue to release their proposals for the House-passed reconciliation package this week, the House plans to vote on President Donald Trump’s proposals to rescind foreign aid and other spending, including for public broadcasting. “The rescissions request sent to Congress by the Trump Administration takes the federal government in a new direction where we actually cut waste, fraud, and abuse and hold agencies accountable to the American people,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said in a statement.

The path to House passage of the $9.4 billion package is still far from clear. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., has already indicated he would vote against the package if it includes cuts to the George W. Bush-era program known as the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which provides foreign aid to fight HIV and AIDS. “I just want to make sure we’re funding the medicine. We want to prevent AIDS, it’s a noble program, it’s George Bush’s legacy. I put the marker out there; we’ll see,” Bacon said in an interview with the New York Times.

The rescissions package could be just the first of several from Trump and his Office of Management and Budget. The House also will take up bills this week targeting local operations in Washington, D.C. One measure would bar noncitizens from voting in local elections in the District of Columbia. Another seeks to overturn a D.C. policing overhaul law. While Republicans are often critical of public employee unions, police unions have long been an exception. Scalise’s office says the bill would restore “collective bargaining rights for MPD officers and a statute of limitations on disciplinary cases.”

Senate Republicans are still working behind the scenes to draft their version of the reconciliation bill. The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee released its text last week. The draft would shut off the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding stream from the Federal Reserve. The Senate process continues amid ongoing criticism from Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman who was until recently leading the White House office known as the Department of Government Efficiency, but who had a very public split from Trump over the last week.

Read more: https://rollcall.com/2025/06/09/house-considers-trump-cuts-as-senate-republicans-work-on-reconciliation-bill/

[Bayard]

1. So much hogwash but the hogs will never get clean

This has nothing to do with accountability to the American people. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at least slowed down Wells Fargo when they were foreclosing on my farm in Calif. That's why the oligarchs want it gone--it actually helps the American people.