Virginia Foxx on Rescissions Act: Slashing Discretionary Waste in Congress

Support for the Rescissions Act

• 🏛️ Representative Virginia Foxx rises in support of the rule HRES 499 for the consideration of HR4, the Rescissions Act of 2025.
• 📜 The rule provides for a closed rule with one-hour debate and one motion to recommit, ensuring a structured debate on the legislation.
• ⚠️ Foxx clarifies that this process is not another vote on HR1 but makes technical changes to protect the privilege of the reconciliation bill heading to the Senate.

Addressing Discretionary Waste

• ✂️ The Rescissions Act targets nearly $10 billion in discretionary waste, aiming to put it "through the congressional shredder."
• 📊 Foxx asserts that Republicans have "receipts to back everything up" regarding the alleged waste.
• 💰 Examples of targeted waste include $158 million from the Lebanon peacekeeping mission, $3 million for an Iraqi Sesame Street, $833,000 for services for transgender people, sex workers, and their clients in Nepal, and $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda.

Scrutiny of Public Broadcasting Funding

• 📻 Foxx questions the continued taxpayer funding for NPR, citing its CEO's testimony about a lack of political bias as contradictory to reality.
• 💸 Evidence presented includes a $1.9 million grant to NPR to "improve objectivity and diverse viewpoints," which Foxx argues proves bias and false testimony.
• 📺 Similar concerns are raised about PBS, with allegations of bias against conservatives and Republicans.
• 📺 The funding of Sesame Street on private services, leveraging taxpayer dollars for private individuals and companies, is also highlighted as wasteful spending.

Restoring Fiscal Sanity

• 🎯 The overarching goal is to slash wasteful spending and restore fiscal sanity in the nation.
• ✅ Foxx emphasizes that a single dollar of taxpayer money wasted is one dollar too many.