Senator Marshall Touts President Trump’s $9.4 Billion Rescissions Package as Major Win for American Taxpayers

Washington – U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas) released the following statement today after the White House sent Congress a $9.4 billion rescissions package to save hard-earned American taxpayer dollars and begin codifying the mission of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.

“Saving American taxpayer dollars by getting rid of $9.4 billion in wasteful spending is another promise made, promise kept by President Trump and his America First Administration,” Senator Marshall said. “With our national debt soaring at an alarming $36 trillion, this rescissions package takes serious steps to ensure hard-earned dollars of American citizens are not funding woke and weaponized programs around the world in the cloak of ‘foreign aid’ or public broadcasting that can only be described as politically biased. I am proud to support this package. We must restore fiscal sanity in Washington.”

Background:

• Under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA), the Trump Administration may transmit a request to Congress to rescind previously appropriated funds through a rescissions package. Such a package only requires a simple majority vote in the Senate to be enacted.
• Congressional Republicans have been requesting a rescissions package to codify DOGE cuts. In collaboration with House and Senate Leadership, the Trump Administration has assembled a package that totals $9.4 billion. This includes a rescission of $8.3 billion in wasteful foreign aid spending and a $1.1 billion rescission of Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
• Transmittal of a package triggers a 45-day clock, during which funds in accounts included in the rescissions package are withheld from agencies pending congressional action.