President Donald Trump wants to make some DOGE cuts official.
The president will send a $9.4 billion rescissions package to Congress next week, giving Republicans an opportunity to enact cuts suggested by Elon Musk’s White House DOGE office.
An Office of Management and Budget spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider that the package will include $1.1 billion in cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $8.3 billion in spending reductions to foreign aid at the US Agency for International Development.
Trump is aiming stop the CPB from funding PBS and NPR, which was the subject of an executive order that he issued earlier this month. The president has long targeted funding for public broadcasting.
The $9.4 billion in spending reductions is far below where many conservatives would like it to be, but codifying cuts from DOGE is a goal that’s been firmly embraced by House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana.
“.@ElonMusk and the entire @DOGE team have done INCREDIBLE work exposing waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government,” Johnson said in an X post on Wednesday.
“The House is eager and ready to act on DOGE’s findings so we can deliver even more cuts to big government that President Trump wants and the American people demand,” he added.
The White House sought to have Congress enact the spending cuts weeks ago, but GOP lawmakers had been focused on drafting and passing Trump’s “one big beautiful bill,” the tax and immigration package that narrowly made it out of the lower chamber and faces an uncertain future in the Senate.
The rescissions request comes as Musk — who will take a step back from his work with DOGE in the coming weeks — criticized the Republican-led bill in an interview with CBS.
“I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk said during the interview. “I think a vote can be big, or it could be beautiful. I don’t know if it could be both.”
In a recent interview with The Washington Post, Musk also said it’s an “uphill battle trying to improve things” in Washington — as he spoke about the backlash that DOGE has so far faced this year.
“DOGE is just becoming the whipping boy for everything,” he told the newspaper. “So, like, something bad would happen anywhere, and we would get blamed for it even if we had nothing to do with it.”
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