Rescissions Act of 2025

Rescissions Act of 2025
Long title	To rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President on June 3, 2025, in accordance with section 1012(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
Announced in	the 119th United States Congress
Citations
Public law	Pub. L. 119–28 (text) (PDF)
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House as H.R. 4 by Steve Scalise (R–LA) on June 6, 2025; Passed the House on June 12, 2025 (214–212); Passed the Senate on July 17, 2025 (51–48) with amendment; House agreed to Senate amendment on July 18, 2025 (216–213); Signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 24, 2025;

The Rescissions Act of 2025 is a law passed by the 119th United States Congress. It rescinds $7.9 billion in funding from international assistance programs and $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). After failing to advance budget measures to eliminate federal funding for public broadcasting during the first Trump administration, amid increased Trump's conflict with the media since his second term, President Trump requested a rescission bill to eliminate federal funding for the CPB, which passed in both chambers of the Republican-controlled Congress largely along party lines in July 2025.

Despite opposition from moderate Republicans, the act passed the Republican-led House on June 12, 2025. An amended version passed the Republican-led Senate on July 17, 2025, and was agreed to in the House on the next day. President Trump signed the bill into law on July 24, 2025.