House passes rescission package that includes cutting billions in foreign aid, PBS funding

The House on Thursday afternoon passed a rescission package that included eliminating $9.4 billion in federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting.

The package cancels money that was already appropriated by Congress in an effort to cement the Department of Government Efficiency's spending cuts. 

The package passed in a 214-212 vote.

The package includes $1.1 billion in cuts for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as the White House has said that NPR and PBS have "spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news,'" and $8.3 billion for the United States Agency for International Development, as well as other international assistance programs.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.