The House Rules Committee on June 10 advanced a package of $9.4 billion in rescissions requested by President Donald Trump, setting up a floor vote on the issue this week.
The spending cuts, submitted to Congress by the White House on June 3, would primarily affect U.S. foreign aid through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and federally funded media. The rules panel approved the package in a party-line 8 to 4 vote.
The bulk of the proposed cuts, approximately $8.3 billion, come out of USAID’s budget, affecting programs across the world deemed by the administration to be wasteful or not aligned with U.S. national interests, as part of overall efforts to reduce federal outlays….