White House to Ask Congress for a Teeny-Tiny $9.4 Billion in Rescissions to the Budget

This is almost embarrassingly small.

I don't entirely blame Trump. The GOP, as you have probably begun to suspect, is simply not serious about any of the things it claims to be serious about.

The White House on Tuesday sent a $9.4 billion rescissions package to Congress in order to codify some of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts as DOGE Chief Elon Musk publicly excoriates the GOP for its failure to address the debt in the "big beautiful bill."

"Today, we have officially received the rescissions request from the White House to eliminate $9.4 billion in wasteful foreign aid spending at State and USAID and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS," House Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed, according to The Hill.

The sum represents a small fraction of the $175 billion in estimated savings DOGE has claimed, and an even smaller portion of the $2 trillion in spending cuts necessary to eliminate the deficit.

Elon Musk minced no words in denouncing what he sees as a betrayal of the DOGE mission:

I understand his frustration. He spent 130 days trying to cut the budget while the left savaged his businesses and his personal wealth and what does he get out of it?

Just some fundraising material for fake GOP clock-punchers.

Karoline Leavitt said Musk's outburst "doesn't change the President's opinion." She said this is a "big beautiful bill and Trump's sticking with it."

Trump also sparred with Rand Paul.

Paul, a fiscal hawk, has repeatedly criticized the GOP's penchant for passing single legislative vehicles instead of the 12 appropriations bills. He has further taken aim at the "big, beautiful bill" over its reported impact on the deficit. Trump, for his part, suggested that Paul lacked a practical alternative and was grandstanding.

"Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas. His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can't stand him. This is a BIG GROWTH BILL!" he posted on Truth Social.

"Rand Paul has very little understanding of the BBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming. He loves voting "NO" on everything, he thinks it's good politics, but it's not. The BBB is a big WINNER!!!" he added in a separate post.

Paul said he would gladly vote for the $9.4 billion in rescissions but also said they were hopelessly inadequate.

posted by Ace at 05:35 PM

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