Rescissions Act of 2025

Floor Speech

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Mr. SMUCKER. Mr. Speaker, this bill represents a tiny fraction of the total we are spending annually. It is a tiny fraction, 0.2 percent, one-fifth of a percent of what President Biden added to the debt over the last 4 years. Yet, Democrats are saying that these savings are cruel. They literally said this will destroy America as we know it. No one outside of the beltway will take them seriously.

Have my Democratic colleagues even looked at what is in this bill before attacking? Is it cruel to suggest that American taxpayers shouldn't have to pay $60,000 to celebrate DEI in the Netherlands or $30,000 to foster ``queer-feminist discourse'' in Albania?

Is it cruel to cut a program spending $700,000 to expand fruit and jam sales in Honduras?

By the way, speaking of jam, my last name is Smucker, but even I know that is a bad deal.

Mr. Speaker, I can tell you what will destroy America as we know it, and that is this unsustainable debt that we are passing on to our kids and grandkids. I urge my colleagues to support this rescission package.

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