Posted on Thursday, June 5, 2025
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by AMAC Action
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On behalf of over 2 million AMAC members, AMAC Action applauds the Trump administration’s decisive move to rein in wasteful federal spending by sending a $9.4 billion rescissions package to Capitol Hill. We also urge Congress to swiftly pass this package to finally target the rampant waste, fraud, and abuse throughout the federal government and pave the way for more spending cuts.
A rescissions package is a formal request by the president to cancel previously authorized but unspent federal funds. This initial proposal, sent by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), marks the first concrete step toward codifying spending cuts identified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The package targets programs that have long been criticized by taxpayers and fiscal conservatives alike. Chief among the proposed cuts are reductions to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—which supports NPR and PBS—and to foreign aid programs that promote radical, left-wing social agendas abroad. The White House has made clear these cuts are only the beginning, with OMB Director Russ Vought confirming that additional rescission packages will follow once Congress acts on this initial round.
This action comes as President Trump calls on Congress to pass his broader reform agenda—what he has branded the “One Big, Beautiful Bill”—before July 4. That legislation contains more than 50 major policy wins, including making permanent the 2017 Trump tax cuts, an expansion of the child tax credit, an end to the Green New Deal’s corporate subsidies, and a $1.6 trillion reduction in mandatory federal spending—the largest such cut in American history.
This rescissions package is a down payment on those broader goals. It affirms President Trump’s commitment to dismantling the administrative state, rooting out waste, and ending the abuse of taxpayer dollars to fund partisan pet projects.
In addition to defunding radical media and international activism, the Trump administration’s broader spending reforms aim to protect and strengthen core national priorities: boosting border security, defending national sovereignty, increasing take-home pay for working families, and shielding American seniors from fraud and abuse in government programs. These common-sense reforms stand in stark contrast to the bloated budgets and reckless giveaways that defined the Biden era.
Congress now has 45 days to act on the rescissions package under expedited rules. The American people will be watching to see whether their elected representatives stand with the taxpayers—or with the entrenched bureaucracies that have long evaded accountability.
“President Trump is doing exactly what he promised—putting the interests of hardworking Americans ahead of Washington’s broken status quo,” said AMAC Action Senior Vice President Andy Mangione. “This rescissions package targets the worst excesses of the federal budget and begins to dismantle the woke, bloated, and out-of-touch spending priorities of the past. Now it’s time for Congress to do its part. AMAC members across the country are demanding action—and they expect their representatives to answer the call.”
AMAC Action will continue to make the voices of AMAC members heard in Washington in support of these long-overdue reforms. For decades, fiscal responsibility has been nothing more than a talking point in Washington D.C. Now, it is one step closer to becoming a reality.
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