Overview

• The House approved the Senate-amended DOGE rescissions package in a 216-213 vote to claw back $9 billion in previously appropriated foreign aid and public broadcasting funds.
• The measure rescinds about $8.3 billion from USAID and other international assistance and $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after exempting $400 million for the PEPFAR HIV/AIDS program.
• On July 17, ten Republican senators formally urged OMB to restore over $6 billion in K-12 education funding that was paused on June 30 pending an agency review.
• Critics warn that using simple-majority votes under the seldom-invoked 1974 Impoundment Control Act bypasses bipartisan budget norms and erodes Congress’s power of the purse.
• OMB Director Russell Vought has indicated further rescission requests are likely, signaling the White House plans additional funding clawbacks.