Under President Donald Trump, the Elon Musk-led DOGE slashed billions in what it deemed as wasteful government spending. (Musk: Reuters / Money: iStock / Trump: Getty)
Trump is asking lawmakers to claw back federal funding from NPR, PBS and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). It's the first of what could be several efforts by Congress to follow through on Elon Musk's work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The proposal is called a rescissions package, a mechanism allowing the White House to weigh in on Congress' yearly government appropriations process.
The process was created under the 1974 Impoundment Control Act as a way to stop the president from unilaterally acting on government funding while giving the executive some say over the spending – albeit with congressional approval.
House and Senate GOP leaders have pledged to work swiftly once they receive the White House's request.
But lawmakers are also working up against another deadline, with Republicans hoping to finish Trump's "big, beautiful" tax and immigration bill by July Fourth.
The tax bill is being passed under a separate fiscal mechanism called budget reconciliation, which allows Congress to amend areas they normally could not touch via the annual appropriations process.
But like reconciliation, rescissions allow the party in power to sidestep the minority by lowering the Senate's threshold for passage to 51 instead of 60 votes. Rescissions debates are also capped at two hours in the House and 10 in the Senate.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought told reporters after meeting with Johnson on Monday that more packages could be coming.
The packages comes as Elon Musk's time heading DOGE draws to a close. (AP/Evan Vucci)
"I get a sense that there will be some that don't want an ad written that they're defunding Big Bird," one House Republican told Fox News Digital. "They've earned cancellation, but I mean, there are some moderates in our conference."
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Meanwhile, conservative groups in the House are bearing down hard to get the bill passed.
Both the House Freedom Caucus and Republican Study Committee released statements pushing for the spending cuts to be passed as soon as possible.
The Freedom Caucus, whose position was first reported by Fox News Digital, called for the House to pass the bill as soon as this week.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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