{"id":4435,"date":"2025-08-29T14:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/29\/trump-moves-to-revoke-5-billion-of-approved-foreign-aid-spending-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:44:38","slug":"trump-moves-to-revoke-5-billion-of-approved-foreign-aid-spending-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/29\/trump-moves-to-revoke-5-billion-of-approved-foreign-aid-spending-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump moves to revoke $5 billion of approved foreign aid spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/russvoughtjuly152025shutt.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"White House budget director Russell Vought speaks with reporters inside the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt\/States Newsroom)\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>White House budget director Russell Vought speaks with reporters inside the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt\/States Newsroom)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The White House budget office moved Friday to yank nearly $5 billion in foreign aid already approved by Congress in a controversial maneuver meant to bypass lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The so-called pocket rescission, which a top congressional watchdog and the Republican chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee have called illegal, would pull funding that Congress has already approved for the State Department to fulfill overseas commitments.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/blog\/what-pocket-rescission-and-it-legal\" target=\"_blank\">has deemed\u00a0<\/a>such actions to circumvent Congress unlawful. And Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins said Friday that \u201cany effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cGiven that this package was sent to Congress very close to the end of the fiscal year when the funds are scheduled to expire, this is an apparent attempt to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval,\u201d the Maine Republican said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to a summary provided by Senate Appropriations ranking Democrat Patty Murray, the move would claw back $3.2 billion from the State Department\u2019s Development Assistance account that funds food security programs, works to limit irregular migration to the U.S. and to strengthen the market for U.S. companies involved in climate issues to expand overseas.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It would also remove $913 million in U.S. treaty dues to the United Nations to support peacekeeping missions; $445 million in security assistance from the State Department\u2019s Peacekeeping Operations, particularly in Africa; and $322 million from the Democracy Fund, according to Murray\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The White House Office of Management and Budget did not respond to a message seeking the request.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that President Donald Trump is \u201cusing his authority under the Impoundment Control Act to deploy a pocket rescission, cancelling $5 billion in foreign aid and international organization funding that violates the President\u2019s America First priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cNone of these programs are in America\u2019s interest, which is why the President is taking decisive action to put America and Americans first,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n<h4>Frustration from Congress<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When the White House makes a request to Congress to claw back funding already approved, the payments are withheld for 45 days while lawmakers make a decision to approve the rescission or not. Because there are fewer than 45 days before the end of the current fiscal year, funding is essentially paused indefinitely, regardless if Congress approves the move.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As lawmakers face an Oct. 1 deadline in order to avoid a government shutdown, the rescission has already drawn frustration on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<figure role=\"group\" class=\"caption caption-drupal-media align-left view-mode--medium\">\n<div class=\"drupal-media-wrapper media--view-mode-medium\">\n<div class=\"blazy blazy--field blazy--view blazy--field-media-image blazy--field-media-image--medium blazy--view--article-feeds-v2-feed-categorized-articles-v2 blazy--view--article-feeds-v2 blazy--view--article-feeds-v2--categorized-articles-v2 field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item\" data-blazy>\n<div data-b-token=\"b-d8af6b6ea04\" class=\"media media--blazy media--image media--responsive is-b-loading\">  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__element b-lazy b-responsive img-fluid\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gettyimages-2078688395-scaled.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" alt=\"U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) listens during a Senate Budget Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 12, 2024 in Washington, DC. The committee held the hearing to discuss U.S. President Joe Biden's Fiscal Year 2025 Budge Proposal with Director of the Office of Management and Budget Shalanda Young. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">U.S. Sen. Patty Murray listens during a Senate Budget Committee on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Murray, of Washington state, blasted the rescission request.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDonald Trump wants to zero out more bipartisan investments in our national security and global leadership,\u201d Murray said in a statement. \u201cThis time, however, he is attempting to do an end run around Congress altogether. No lawmaker should accept this absurd, illegal ploy to steal their constitutional power to determine how taxpayer dollars get spent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed the Trump administration for withdrawing funds approved on a bipartisan basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAs the country stares down next month\u2019s government funding deadline on September 30th, it is clear neither President Trump nor Congressional Republicans\u00a0 have any plan to avoid a painful and entirely unnecessary shutdown,\u201d the New York Democrat said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Pennsylvania Democrat Brendan Boyle, who is the top Democrat on the U.S. House Budget Committee, said in a statement the rescission wasn\u2019t \u201cworth the paper it\u2019s printed on,\u201d and criticized Trump and White House budget director Russell Vought by name.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt is deeply alarming, plainly illegal, and a blatant abuse of power,\u201d Boyle said. \u201cCongress approved this funding on a bipartisan basis, and the Constitution is clear: it is Congress\u2014not the President\u2014that holds the power of the purse. With this illegal power grab, Donald Trump and Russell Vought are driving us toward a government shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is the Trump administration\u2019s second rescissions request to Congress. The first, which Congress approved,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/us-house-votes-yank-funding-npr-pbs-foreign-aid-sending-bill-trumps-desk\" target=\"_blank\">yanked $9 billion<\/a> in congressionally approved funding. That included about $1.1 billion for the\u00a0Corporation for Public Broadcasting, such as National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, for two fiscal years. It also clawed back $8 billion of foreign aid.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House budget director Russell Vought speaks with reporters inside the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt\/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON \u2014 The White House budget office moved Friday to yank nearly $5 billion in foreign aid already approved by Congress in a controversial maneuver meant to bypass lawmakers. 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