What's included in $9B rescissions bill approved by House?

WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — For the archetypal clip successful decades, Congress has approved a statesmanlike petition to rescind antecedently authorized backing successful a triumph for President Donald Trump.

In a late-night ballot Thursday, House Republicans passed a $9 cardinal rescission measure targeting overseas assistance programs and nationalist broadcasting, long-standing GOP priorities for spending cuts.

Trump is expected to motion the measure Friday, up of a deadline to either enact the cuts oregon merchandise the funds.

Celebrating the triumph connected societal media, Trump wrote: “House approves 9 cardinal dollar cuts package, including atrocious NPR and nationalist broadcasting, wherever billions of dollars a twelvemonth were wasted. Republicans person tried doing this for 40 years, and failed ... but nary more. This is big!"

What is simply a rescissions bill?

The legislation, made imaginable nether the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, allows a president to petition that Congress cancel funds that person already been approved. Lawmakers past person 45 days to act; otherwise, the wealth indispensable beryllium spent.

What's included successful the rescissions package?

The authorities — which claws backmost already-approved national backing for overseas assistance and nationalist broadcasting — cleared the enclosure successful a mostly party-line 216-213 vote little than a time aft the Senate passed the measure.

The bundle targets the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS — 2 outlets that Republicans person labeled arsenic biased — arsenic good arsenic the U.S. Agency for International Development, which DOGE targeted aboriginal successful the Trump administration.

Republicans view the measure arsenic a captious “test run” for the party, arsenic Trump medication officials person already indicated that they purpose to send aggregate peculiar requests to Congress to claw backmost much backing if the archetypal bundle passes.

The petition initially sent by the White House, known arsenic a rescissions package, called for $9.4 cardinal successful cuts to national backing antecedently approved by Congress, including $8.3 cardinal for USAID and overseas aid, arsenic good arsenic much than $1 cardinal successful nationalist broadcasting funds. 

However, the White House ultimately agreed to exempt the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which was established nether erstwhile President George W. Bush successful 2003 and totaled about $400 million, aft those cuts became a captious constituent of contention for mean GOP lawmakers.

Republicans said they also reached a woody with the administration seeking to shield tribal stations from cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

What happens present that the rescissions measure has passed the Senate?

The authorities volition instrumentality to the House for a last vote.

NewsNation spouse The Hill contributed to this report.