President Donald Trump’s administration submitted its first rescissions package of the year to Congress, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced on Tuesday, accompanied by a list of instances of “waste, fraud, and abuse” singled out for the chopping block.
In a thread posted on X, OMB said lawmakers in the House and Senate “must act” on the request to claw back billions of dollars in “wasteful foreign aid and federal funding for NPR and PBS” previously appropriated by Congress, with “45 days to codify these massive cuts to woke, wasteful, and weaponized spending via a simple majority vote” using the Impoundment Control Act.
OMB specifically highlighted $67,000 for testing insect powder nutrition on children in Madagascar, $33,000 for “Being LGBTI in the Caribbean,” $643,000 for “LGBTQI+” programs in the Western Balkans, and $567,000 for “LBGTQI+” programs in Uganda.
$67,000 for testing insect powder nutrition on children in Madagascar. pic.twitter.com/ehLzMuIkkr
— Office of Management and Budget (@WHOMB) June 3, 2025
“Scores of DEI and Global Green New Deal funding” projects were also mentioned, including: $5 million for the “Minority Serving Institute Fellowship Cooperative Agreement,” $595,400 for training women in gender equity, $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda, $6 million for “net zero cities” in Mexico, $2.1 million for climate resilience in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and East Africa, as well as $5 million for “green transportation and logistics” in Eurasia.
OMB’s list went on to mention $4 million for “legume systems research” and $3 million for Iraqi Sesame Street.
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In addition, OMB noted millions under the PEPFAR account for so-called LGBTQIA+ programs, condoms, and vasectomies: $833,000 for “transgender people, sex workers and their clients and sexual networks” in Nepal, $5.1 million for “resilience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans gender, intersex, and queer global movements,” $3 million for circumcision, vasectomies, and condoms in Zambia, $1 billion in contributions to “wasteful, corrupt, and anti-American international organizations,” including $135 million to the World Health Organization, and $1.1 billion for the “left-wing” Corporation for Public Broadcasting, “which uses your taxpayer dollars to fund PBS and NPR.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) confirmed receipt of the rescissions package, which his office said focuses on $9.4 trillion in “wasteful spending” identified by the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative. He also gave a shoutout to Elon Musk, who earlier had assailed the lawmakers who voted to pass the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” last month, citing the “unsustainable” debt.
“The House will act quickly on this request,” Johnson said in a statement. “Under President Trump, every federal taxpayer dollar is actually being used to serve the American people, not to fund a bloated bureaucracy or purely partisan pet projects. We thank Elon Musk and his DOGE team for identifying a wide range of wasteful, duplicative, and outdated programs, and House Republicans are eager to eliminate them.”
He added: “This rescissions package reflects many of DOGE’s findings and is one of the many legislative tools Republicans are using to restore fiscal sanity. Congress will continue working closely with the White House to codify these recommendations, and the House will bring the package to the floor as quickly as possible.”
Johnson also took a shot at Democrats, who have largely opposed anything Trump supports, including DOGE.
“Democrats continue to wail and complain — NOT at the fraud, waste, and abuse — but at the Trump Administration simply for exposing it,” the speaker declared. “In fact, Democrats are the only ones in Washington who do not want to stop the egregious misspending of the people’s tax dollars. Democrats continue to defend corruption, while Republicans are delivering real accountability and real savings the American people demanded in November.”