Rescissions Act of 2025

Floor Speech

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Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Speaker, America's resources should always serve America's interests, and 22 rescissions to wasteful foreign aid and biased media totaling $9.4 billion is a good start.

I commend this legislation because as the national debt climbs toward $37 trillion, U.S. taxpayers deserve a government that serves them, not radical policies abroad or at home.

The reality is that the radical left has seized these institutions and wielded them for an agenda that doesn't serve America's interests. Wasted government revenues siphoned off the backs of Americans' labor through tax dollars should not be tolerated.

I commend the $1 billion rescission to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Taxpayer funding for woke media entities is absurd. NPR and PBS already have a business model that doesn't need to rely on 150 million Americans' taxed income. It does not need to promote any agenda, including their radical agenda, with stuff like what to do if you experience a microaggression or some other promotion of their agenda.

Additionally, international institutions have abandoned their original missions to promote development in exchange for radical gender ideological and climate priorities.

That is why I support the rescissions package, and I urge support for the bill.

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