House to vote on Trump's rescission package to cancel $9.4 billion for foreign aid, NPR, PBS

The House is set to vote Thursday on President Trump's rescission package to cancel $9.4 billion in foreign aid and for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS.

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

House Speaker Mike Johnson said in recent days that the package would cancel "wasteful spending," and called it a "manifestation of the DOGE effort," adding that it would "ensure greater accountability in government going forward," CBS News reported.

The legislation 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.'" The corporation provided $325 million in funding to PBS this year.

Johnson said that funding the two media outlets is an outmoded idea because "we're in a different era now."

"There is no reason for any media organization to be singled out to receive federal funds," the speaker said. "Especially those who appear to have so little regard for the truth."

The package includes cutting $8.3 billion for the United States Agency for International Development, as well as other international assistance programs.

DOGE "went after USAID first for their review, their audits," because USAID "opposed the loudest of this accountability measure," claiming they "put the scrutiny targets on their own backs," Johnson said.

The White House sent the rescission package on June 3, which gives Congress 45 days to act on the legislation.