The White House Directorate has officially submitted to the sessions of Congress the rescissions bill package with a price tag exactly $9.4 billion. The aim was to reduce funds for some big-ticket programs, including NPR and PBS. With the support of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the cuts propose $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and approximately $8.3 billion for foreign aid and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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The announcement instantly amused the wrath and, interestingly, some degrees of support from both political sides of the spectrum. While fiscal conservatives are now in agreement and even saying nothing more could have been done, the contrary opinion is that this is an assault against public media and global huskier services.
User one put it bluntly: “You mean to tell me that out of 5 trillion dollars you only found 10 billion in cuts? That is a total lack of seriousness on the part of the administration. I expected better.” Another venting from the feeling of thinjuxtaposition wrote: “$9B is that it?”
The other camp supports cutting funds because they feel that it is an inappropriate use of taxpayer funds. “Taxpayers do not owe you a living,” one person said while responding to another who was against the proposed cuts, arguing that several people had financial difficulties through the pandemic. Another person went ahead to say, “It’s not the American taxpayer’s responsibility to keep everyone in the world alive.”
The NPR and PBS cuts were of special interest. If you ask the critics, public broadcasting provides valuable services; supporters of cuts say public broadcasting is other set of long-overdue budget reductions. An Internet user almost lost it with a joke saying, “Did he sign it, or was it autopen (since no one has seen him for days)?”— amid speculation about the whereabouts of the president.
BREAKING: The White House has sent a $9.4 billion rescissions package to Congress aimed at codifying some work done by the Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) including $1.1 billion in funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds National Public… pic.twitter.com/uGX8HT7Hpl
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These foreign aid cuts also made some enough noise, albeit. Some wanted even more reductions. “They were on path to killing us all!!! Thank you,” wrote one person, suggesting that foreign assistance programs were not in the best interests of the United States. Others argued against this notion, stating that diplomacy and aid were important means for achieving international stability.
In an interesting way, some replies took a more technical approach. Someone suggested looking at the cuts using pie charts, commenting that “$9.4 billion is about 0.16% of the budget,” thereby minimizing the importance of federal spending cuts.
The reform package is under Congress review at the moment, and the debates themselves peppering the issue are far from over. Some resistance is being signaled by lawmakers, while others are already in headlights for pushing the cuts harder. It will be a matter of watching if the proposal will rightfully take shape in the way forward or if it will be caught in political limbo already. One thing is certain, though, and that is the conflict over the way and place of spending taxpayers’ cash has always been a sharp one.
So, the rescission package becomes another battleground in a long-standing fight about government expenditure. And if the online outcry were anything to go by, then this burning topic in contention is far from resolved. Some want to address this with a scalpel, some want to hack through it with a machete-but on the big picture, the issue must find a solution. And whether this proposal is the one is still uncertain.
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No further comments from the White House have been issued on the particulars of the plan. One thing is for sure, though: with midterms looming, the stakes could not be higher. So this will never really be the end of it.
This story originally appeared on Celebrityinsider
