“The American people gave us a mandate to stop reckless spending and get our national debt under control,” said Senator Blackburn. “For years, American taxpayers have been bankrolling biased public media, foreign spending that undermines our values, and other outrageous things like electric buses in Rwanda and climate programs in Mexico. The rescissions package that Senate Republicans just passed eliminates billions in wasteful spending, and it is an important step toward restoring fiscal sanity and economic security.”

THE RESCISSIONS ACT OF 2025

Below are highlights of the billions in wasteful government spending the rescissions package will cut: 

• Reckless spending on biased public media:

o    Eliminates nearly $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the organization that funnels taxpayer dollars into a politically biased media system, including NPR and PBS, that has pushed left-wing ideology on the taxpayers’ dime for years. Click here for a list of examples of left-wing bias at NPR and PBS.

• Foreign spending on programs that undermines American values and interests:
  

• $3.9 million for strengthening integrity, equality, and democracy for LGBTQI+ population of the Western Balkans;

• $2.5 million to teach children how to make environmentally friendly “reproductive health” decision;

• $2.4 million to make aid more considerate of “sexual orientation and gender identity;”

• $2.1 million for “climate resilience” in Asia, Latin America, and Africa;

• $750,000 to “Yemen Community Resilience;” and

• $500,000 for a gender equality and empowerment hub.

• Funding to international organizations that work against American interests:

• $135 million for the corrupt World Health Organization, which covered for Communist China throughout the COVID pandemic;

• $33 million for the UN Population Fund, whose funding has gone towards providing tampons for transgender individuals in Bangladesh, a campaign to promote LGBTQ ideology in Rio de Janeiro, and “third-gender” community centers in Southeast Asia; 

• $8 million for the UN Human Rights Council, which supports dictators and repressive regimes while demonizing our ally, Israel.

• Funding for outrageous projects at the expense of American taxpayers:

• $21 million for wind farms in Ukraine;

• $18 million to improve gender diversity in the Mexican street lighting industry;

• $6 million for “Net Zero Cities” in Mexico;

• $4.4 million for the “Melanesian Youth Climate Corps;”

• $4 million for “sedentary migrants” in Colombia;

• $3 million for an Iraqi version of Sesame Street; 

• $3 million for sexual reproductive health in Venezuela;

• $2.4 million to make aid more considerate of “sexual orientation and gender identity;”

• $1 million for voter ID in Haiti;

• $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda; and

• $500,000 for Peruvian biodiversity.

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Click here for bill text.