House Delivers With $9B Rescissions Package –

If it looks like we have been just having this dialog…it is because we just about have been. Just two weeks in the past, we gritted our tooth through the marathon slog of a House vote (and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ (D-NY) limitless “magic minute”) on the reconciliation invoice (also identified as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” or “OBBB”). 

It might need been kicking and screaming, but the House GOP dragged OBBB across the end line, just in time for President Donald Trump to signal it on the 4th of July. 

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And now, they’ve managed it with the $9 billion rescissions/DOGE cuts bundle as properly. After a number of Rules Committee machinations, the House started an “hour” of debate on the measure shortly after 10:00 PM Eastern Thursday night time. With a 216 to 213 vote, the measure finally handed at around 12:06 AM Eastern. (Brian Fitzpatrick (PA) and Mike Turner (OH) have been the 2 Republican no votes on the measure.) 

This vote follows initial passage in the House in mid-June, adopted by the Senate’s tussle with it earlier this week. That led to some (comparatively) minor tweaks that nudged the clawback down from $9.4 billion to $9 billion. 

Still, $9 billion’s not nothing. 

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As streiff famous upon the Senate’s passage, this is the first time a rescissions bundle has efficiently made its manner through Congress in over a quarter of a century:

This marks the first time the rescission course of has been used to cut spending since 1999. President Trump tried to cut $15 billion in 2018, but the invoice failed to clear the Senate. Since the method was launched in the Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, presidents have submitted 1,178 rescission requests totaling $76 billion; 461 of those requests, comprising $25 billion, survived contact with Congress.

So, it is a win, even if it is a small-ish one. Of course, even those modest cuts (roughly $8 billion in international support spending and $1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) have the left howling over the injustice of it all. See, e.g., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY):

Schumer on Budget Director Vought: He desires to destroy, destroy the way in which the Congress works, destroy steadiness of energy, finish our complete Constitution. Russell Vought does not imagine in this democracy. He desires to impose his right-wing views on America virtually unilaterally. He stated he…

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 17, 2025

Now that it is handed the House, President Trump will take his Sharpie to the measure and signal it into law. 

And after that? Appropriations. Our Managing Editor, Jennifer Van Laar, has a great explainer: 

After the Big, Beautiful Bill and the rescissions bundle cross, Congress will flip its consideration to the annual appropriations invoice, which is where large spending cuts can happen. And since the debt ceiling and a quantity of different contentious points (just like the tax cuts and funding for deportations and the border wall) will likely be off the desk, it will be tougher for Senate Democrats to maintain something hostage, and more spending cuts can happen.

Yes, it is a slog. But issues are shifting in the precise direction. 

Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump’s management and daring insurance policies, America’s financial system is back on observe.

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